String to array of characters

[Anon]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to explode a string into and array of characters?

explode("", $string); // Returns FALSE

[Anon]

not sure if there is a function that could handle it, but a good ol\' for loop would do the trick..

for (i=0;i<strlen($string);i++)
{
$chararray[$i] = substr($string,$i,1);
}

[jesus_hairdo]

you don't actually need to, you can refer to a string as an array, so if,

$string = "Hello";
print $string[0];
print $string[4];

would print , 'Ho' (without quotes);

Jamie

[Anon]

But if you do want to use a function, the PHP manual points out how to do it in the entry for the split() function (it refers you to preg_split()).