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explode generating an empty element in an array (2)

Hello,
I'm using explode to delimit a string, for example:

case 1: $testString="apple+";
case 2: //$testString = "+apple orange+";
case 3: //$testString = "apple+orange";
$testStringArr = explode("+", $testString);

The output of the size of the three $testStringArr both are 2, 3 2.

the result of case 3 is fine.

how could i change the code, so that i could get only "apple" incase 1, and get "apple orange" in case 3?

i used :
for ($k=0; $k<sizeof($testStringArr ); $k++){
if (strlen($testStringArr[$k])==0 ){
unset($testStringArr[$k]);
}

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This doesn't work for case 2. Is there something I'm missing? Any suggestion ?

Thanks very much for your reply,
lilyyan

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lilyyan

ASKER

Hi, thanks for your reply. It works great!

lilyyan

ASKER

one more question, after using trim() function, the unset() process is not necessary to be used ?

glcummins

That is entirely up to you. My preference would be to simply call unset() on the entire array when you are finished using it. However, if the strings that you are storing as elements are quite massive, then you may be better off calling unset() on each element as you finish using it.

lilyyan

ASKER

Hi, thanks very much for your reply. Helpful!