How to explode and keep white space in strings?

Question

I have a series of country names like:

United Kingdom Spain Russia Saudi Arabia

The thing is if I do:

$stateList = explode(' ', $stateList);

That will result in:

United KingdomSpainRussiaSaudi Arabia

UPDATE

This is what I am doing aftwards:

foreach($stateList as $state) { echo $state;

But the result is as per above

Answer 1

You will not be able to differentiate between spaces within country names and spaces as country delimiters.

You could modify your input array and use explode():

$state_list='United Kingdom,Spain,Russia,Saudi Arabia';

foreach(explode(',',$state_list) as $state){
    echo $state,"<br>";
}