Online PHP editor | refs for trmW4

<?php function gen_explode($delimiter, $string, $limit=NULL) { $offset = 0; $count = 0; $dlen = strlen($delimiter); $len = strlen($string); while( ($pos = strpos($string, $delimiter, $offset)) !== false ) { if( !is_null($limit) && $count++ >= $limit ) { return; } yield substr($string, $offset, $pos-$offset); $offset = $pos + $dlen; } if( $offset == $len ) { yield ''; // replicate explode() empty trailing groups } else if( $offset < $len ) { yield substr($string, $offset); } } $input = "1||50||£---2||25||£---3||25||£---"; foreach( gen_explode('---', $input, 3) as $piece ) { var_dump($piece); foreach( gen_explode('||', $piece) as $smaller_piece ) { var_dump($smaller_piece); } }