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verb🔗Share(PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators."The programmer exploded the sentence "John,Doe,30,New York" into separate pieces of data using the comma as the separator. "computingtechnologyinternetChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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