splitting array elements

[Anon]

In parsing a config file, i'm splitting the initial string into an array, then going to split each array element into an array itself. however, i keep getting null arrays....

$fp = @fopen("prefs.txt","r") or die("Cannot open file");
$cont = fread($fp, filesize("prefs.txt"));
$cont = split("</>", $cont);
$items = split("random char", $count[1]);

this keeps throwing nulls. any ideas?

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Rule #1 in debugging: print.

Print the file, print the lines from the file, and see what it is you are trying to split.

BTW, to read a file into an array, use 'file()'. That will put each line of the file into an element of the array