In PHP, how can I split a string by whitespace, commas, and newlines at the same time

Question

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How to split a string by multiple delimiters in PHP?

What would be the most efficient way to split a string by three delimiters at the same time, specifically a single white space, newline, and commas?

Solution

Since you've tagged your questions with php I will stick to that. See preg_split

$split_strings = preg_split('/[\ \n\,]+/', $your_string);

This will keep the array clean too, in case your string is something like some, ,,string, it will still result in ['some', 'string'] instead of ['some', '', '', '', 'string'].