Split a Word

[Bizz]

Is there a built in function which will split a word into an array.

[tomhath]

I assume you mean into an array of characters. It's one of the examples, right in the manual:

$str = 'string';
$chars = preg_split('//', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print_r($chars);

[benG]

hello bizz
I myself am very new to PHP and I am surprised at myself for even attempting to answer someone else's question but here goes nothing.
You want to split a word up into an array
do you mean put each letter of the word into an array. I think you need to use the explode() function
it takes a string and based on a separator puts the parts into an array.
if no sense give me an example of what you are trying to do

benG

[Bizz]

Thanks for your help guys. I know of the explode function, but this is just on the fly so I dont have a seperator.

[the_Igel]

You can address characters in a string as array elements, too:

$str = 'hello world';

echo $str[1]; //echoes 'e'

But maybe in such a case php will provide a warning.