note 45800 deleted from function.explode by bjori

Note Submitter: jtgalkowski at alum dot mit dot edu ---- That explode returns FALSE when a null string is passed as the delimiting string can be unfortunate if all that wants doing is to explode a string into an array one "character" per array cell. This can be done using chunk_split at the cost of devoting a character to be used as an interim delimiter. Thus, function flatExplodeUsing( $safeCharacter, $aString ) { $a = explode( $safeCharacter, chunk_split( $aString, 1, $safeCharacter ) ) ; unset( $a[strlen($aString)] ) ; return( $a ) ; } and var_dump( flatExplodeUsing( "\xff", 'abcdef' ) ) ; yields array(6) { [0]=> string(1) "a" [1]=> string(1) "b" [2]=> string(1) "c" [3]=> string(1) "d" [4]=> string(1) "e" [5]=> string(1) "f" }