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strtok()

strtok - Tokenize string

Syntax

string strtok (string $str, string $token, string $token, string $str, string $token, string $token)

Arguments

  • str - The string being split up into smaller strings (tokens).
  • token - The delimiter used when splitting up str.
  • token
  • str - The string being split up into smaller strings (tokens).
  • token - The delimiter used when splitting up str.
  • token

Description

strtok() splits a string ( str) into smaller strings (tokens), with each token being delimited by any character from token. That is, if you have a string like "This is an example string" you could tokenize this string into its individual words by using the space character as the token.

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

A string token.