select words in variable

[Silver-0-surfer]

Hi guys,

I am trying to do something, but It's not going too well, hopefully one of you can help.

Basically what is happening is I am getting plain text sent to me via a specific port, that information is being stored in a variable. I know need to interrogate that variable and get the values from it, hopefully this explains better.

I have a variable $input and its value atm is "It|is|Saturday|night|and|I|am|working"

what I would like to do is store each word maybe in an array or something, I am sure that I can write it to a csv file and then use "|" as the delimiter but I would like to not do that if possible as $inputs value will constantly change and I don't want to run into problems with the wrong values in the wrong textfile being read( working with text files FREAKS me out ).

Is it possible to put that information without writing it to a file?

btw I am using PHP.

thanks

 

[CrazyBob]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

$inputArray = explode("|",$input);

 

[Silver-0-surfer]

AWESOME, thanks alot man.

 

[iCubed.Saajid]

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