while - nothing wrong

[lentin64]

When I'm trying to do this:
$text="m|g|a";
while($a = split("|",$text)) {
$m = $a[0];
}

but it says:

parse error: parse error in C:\PHP\test.php on line 2

and I find this:

while($a = split("|",$text)) {

it's ok-looking, but it says parse error still.
-Steven

[crusty_php]

$text="m|g|a";
$a = split("|",$text);
$m = $a[0];