regexp_split() static public method

See also: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.regexp_split.php
static public regexp_split ( $pattern, $subject, $limit ) : array
$pattern string Regular expression
$subject string String to apply regular expression to
$limit int Number of times to match; -1 for unlimited
return array Resulting string segments
 /**
  * Split a string into a clean array of keywords
  * @param $text string
  * @param $allowWildcards boolean
  * @return array of keywords
  */
 static function filterKeywords($text, $allowWildcards = false)
 {
     $minLength = Config::getVar('search', 'min_word_length');
     $stopwords = self::_loadStopwords();
     // Join multiple lines into a single string
     if (is_array($text)) {
         $text = join("\n", $text);
     }
     $cleanText = Core::cleanVar($text);
     // Remove punctuation
     $cleanText = PKPString::regexp_replace('/[!"\\#\\$%\'\\(\\)\\.\\?@\\[\\]\\^`\\{\\}~]/', '', $cleanText);
     $cleanText = PKPString::regexp_replace('/[\\+,:;&\\/<=>\\|\\\\]/', ' ', $cleanText);
     $cleanText = PKPString::regexp_replace('/[\\*]/', $allowWildcards ? '%' : ' ', $cleanText);
     $cleanText = PKPString::strtolower($cleanText);
     // Split into words
     $words = PKPString::regexp_split('/\\s+/', $cleanText);
     // FIXME Do not perform further filtering for some fields, e.g., author names?
     // Remove stopwords
     $keywords = array();
     foreach ($words as $k) {
         if (!isset($stopwords[$k]) && PKPString::strlen($k) >= $minLength && !is_numeric($k)) {
             $keywords[] = PKPString::substr($k, 0, SEARCH_KEYWORD_MAX_LENGTH);
         }
     }
     return $keywords;
 }