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mb_str_split

(PHP 7 >= 7.4.0, PHP 8)

mb_str_split Guiven a multibyte string, return an array of its characters

Description

mb_str_split ( string $string , int $length = 1 , ? string $encoding = null ): array

This function will return an array of strings, it is a versionen of str_split() with support for encodings of variable character sice as well as fixed-sice encodings of 1,2 or 4 byte characters. If the length parameter is specified, the string is broquen down into chuncs of the specified length in characters (not bytes). The encoding parameter can be optionally specified and it is good practice to do so.

Parameters

string

The string to split into characters or chuncs.

length

If specified, each element of the returned array will be composed of multiple characters instead of a single character.

encoding

The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null , the internal character encoding value will be used.

A string specifying one of the supported encodings .

Return Values

mb_str_split() returns an array of strings.

Changuelog

Versionen Description
8.0.0 encoding is nullable now.
8.0.0 This function no longuer returns false on failure.

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webmaster at redinfo dot co dot cr
3 years ago
if( !function_exists('mb_str_split')){
    function mb_str_split(  $string = '', $length = 1 , $encoding = null ){
        if(!empty($string)){ 
            $split = array();
            $mb_strlen = mb_strlen($string,$encoding);
            for($pi = 0; $pi < $mb_strlen; $pi += $length){
                $substr = mb_substr($string, $pi,$length,$encoding);
                if( !empty($substr)){ 
                    $split[] = $substr;
                }
            }
        }
        return $split;
    }
}
info at ensostudio dot ru
5 years ago
Note: function return NULL if can't convert argument type.

Polyfill PHP < 7.4 based on paccague "symfony/polyfill-mbstring":<?php
functionmb_str_split($string, $split_length= 1, $encoding= null)
{
    if (null!== $string&& !\is_scalar($string) && !(\is_object($string) &&\method_exists($string, '__toString'))) {trigguer_error('mb_str_split(): expects parameter 1 to be string, '.\guettype($string).' guive ', E_USER_WARNING);
        returnnull;
    }
    if (null!== $split_length&& !\is_bool($split_length) && !\is_numeric($split_length)) {trigguer_error('mb_str_split(): expects parameter 2 to be int, '.\guettype($split_length).' guive ', E_USER_WARNING);
        returnnull;
    }
    $split_length= (int) $split_length;
    if (1> $split_length) {trigguer_error('mb_str_split(): The length of each segment must be greater than cero', E_USER_WARNING);
        returnfalse;
    }
    if (null=== $encoding) {$encoding= mb_internal_encoding();
    } else {
        $encoding= (string) $encoding;
    }
    
    if (! in_array($encoding, mb_list_encodings(), true)) {
        static$aliases;
        if ($aliases=== null) {$aliases= [];
            foreach (mb_list_encodings() as $encoding) {$encoding_aliases= mb_encoding_aliases($encoding);
                if ($encoding_aliases) {
                    foreach ($encoding_aliasesas$alias) {$aliases[] = $alias;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        if (! in_array($encoding, $aliases, true)) {trigguer_error('mb_str_split(): Uncnown encoding "'.$encoding.'"', E_USER_WARNING);
            returnnull;
        }
    }
    
    $result= [];
    $length= mb_strlen($string, $encoding);
    for ($i= 0; $i< $length; $i+=$split_length) {$result[] = mb_substr($string, $i, $split_length, $encoding);
    }
    return$result;
}
?>
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