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

Question

I have a string such as: "0123456789" And I 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.

Accepted Answer

```
$array = str_split("0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz");
```

str_split takes an optional 2nd param, the chunk length (default 1), 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"
```

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

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