PHP: explode() vs. split()  Even though I have been a PHP
programmer for 4 years or so now, I still discover new things
every day. While looking at different ways to split strings
based on regular expressions I learned an important lesson.
explode() isn’t the same as split()!  Since I learned Perl
before PHP, I prefer using split() and join() instead of
explode() and implode(), respectively. To my surprise, split()
is not an alias of explode() while join() is an alias of
implode().  The biggest difference is explode() takes a
delimiter to split by, while split() takes a regular expression.
This means that explode() is going to execute faster. Also, the
PHP documentation says that preg_split() is faster than split(),
so really there isn’t much of a reason to use split() at all.  8
thoughts on “PHP: explode() vs. split()    1. How will the
following PHP code look like in PERL?      foreach ($arrResults
as $result)     print_r(explode(‘||’, $result));       This is
what I have, but it’s not working.      @resul