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For the following code:

$string = "hello: Mister, Winterbottom";

$words = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", $string);
print_r ($words);

I get:

Array ( [0] => hello: [1] => Mister [2] => Winterbottom )

but I want the results to be:

Array ( [0] => hello [1] => Mister [2] => Winterbottom )

so that it will ignore the colon. How can I do it?

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    Use /[\s,:]+/. Or /\W+/ Commented Oct 17, 2016 at 16:55

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If you need to expand your character class with :, just put it inside it and use

/[\s,:]+/

See its demo here. Or, just use /\W+/ to split with 1+ non-word characters.

$words = preg_split("/[\s,:]+/", $string);
print_r ($words);
// Or
print_r(preg_split("/\W+/", $string));

See the PHP demo

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$string = "hello: Mister, Winterbottom";

$words = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", $string);

$words[0] = rtrim($words[0],":");

print_r ($words);
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