PHP: Split string into array, like explode with no delimiter

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I have a string such as: "0123456789" and need to split EACH character into an array. I for the hell of it tried: explode('', '123545789'); But it gave me the obvious: Warning: No delimiter defined in explode) .. How would I come across this? I can't see any method off hand, especially just a function php string arrays split explode shareimprove this question asked Jan 31 '10 at 2:29 oni-kun 62041019

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$array = str_split("0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz"); str_split also takes a 2nd param, the chunk length, so you can do things like: $array = str_split("aabbccdd",2); // $array[0] = aa // $array[1] = bb // $array[2] = cc etc ... You can also get at parts of your string by treating it as an array: $string = "hello"; echo $string[1]; // outputs "e"