Re: string to array
| From: | Erwin | Date: | Fri, 08 Nov 2002 13:18:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: string to array | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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Tom Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Friday, November 8, 2002, 10:43:10 PM, you wrote:
>> Hi all,
>
>> has anyone an elegant (and faster) way of converting 'string' to
>> array('s','t','r','i','n','g'),
>> other then
>> for($i=0; $i<strlen($string); $i++) $array[$i]=$string[$i];
>
>
>
> A string is already an array of chars
>
> $string = 'string';
> echo $string[0]; // will echo 's'
True, but that's different than the array type. Sometimes you'll just need
an array instead of a string.
Try using
$string = explode( '', 'string' );
Grtz Erwin