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Split text into words but consider comma as word

I would like to get each word of this text but need to consider comma as a separate word, in PHP:

My input text:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

My wanted array:

array[0] => "Lorem"
array[1] => "ipsum"
array[2] => "dolor"
array[3] => "sit"
array[4] => "amet"
array[5] => ","
array[6] => "consectetuer"
array[7] => "adipiscing"
array[8] => "elit"
array[9] => "."

What I get with explode(" ", $text) is:

array[0] => "Lorem"
array[1] => "ipsum"
array[2] => "dolor"
array[3] => "sit"
array[4] => "amet,"
array[5] => "consectetuer"
array[6] => "adipiscing"
array[7] => "elit."
Solution

  • You could replace the comma with a space+comma+space ',' -> ' , ' 

    $newSentence = str_replace("," , " , " , $theSentence);  
$arr = preg_split('/[\s]+/', $newSentence);