Hello Readers,

In this blog, I am going to tell a small difference between Explode & Split function in PHP. Both the function do the same thing i.e split a string into array.

But there is a minor difference that explode takes delimiter to split while split takes regular expression. This means the running time of explode is faster than split function.

According to PHP Documentation : preg_split() is faster than split(), so really there isn’t much of a reason to use split() at all.

Example of Explode() Function

<?php


$str = "welcome to Find Nerd";

print_r (explode(" ",$str));  // split a string by string into array


?>

Output: Array ( [0] => welcome [1] => to [2] =>Find [3] => Nerd)

Example of Split() Function

<?php


   $str = "w.t.f.n"

   print_r(split ("\.", $str)); // split a string into array  using regular expression.


?>

Output: Array ( [0] => w [1] => t [2] => f [3] => n )