note 76337 added to function.explode

I was just wondering, is there a way to get each character as an array, I did a brief scan of the functions list and couldn't find something at first, and you can't do this in explode because the delimerater (or whatever you call it) cannot be null. As you can probably tell by this program, it's just a function to work out a word's value according to the sum of the old primary school secret code of each letter representing a number equal to its place in the alphabet. <?php function alpha_value($q){ $p = explode("",$q); foreach($p as $v){ $v = strtolower($v); if($v == 'a'){$g = 1;} if($v == 'b'){$g = 2;} if($v == 'c'){$g = 3;} if($v == 'd'){$g = 4;} if($v == 'e'){$g = 5;} if($v == 'f'){$g = 6;} if($v == 'g'){$g = 7;} if($v == 'h'){$g = 8;} if($v == 'i'){$g = 9;} if($v == 'j'){$g = 10;} if($v == 'k'){$g = 11;} if($v == 'l'){$g = 12;} if($v == 'm'){$g = 13;} if($v == 'n'){$g = 14;} if($v == 'o'){$g = 15;} if($v == 'p'){$g = 16;} if($v == 'q'){$g = 17;} if($v == 'r'){$g = 18;} if($v == 's'){$g = 19;} if($v == 't'){$g = 20;} if($v == 'u'){$g = 21;} if($v == 'v'){$g = 22;} if($v == 'w'){$g = 23;} if($v == 'x'){$g = 24;} if($v == 'y'){$g = 25;} if($v == 'z'){$g = 26;} $total = $total + $g; } return $total; } ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 124.183.114.216 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/76337 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76337/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76337/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76337/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76337/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76337/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76337/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76337 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/76337 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php