note 76337 deleted from function.explode by nlopess

Note Submitter: Meercat9 ---- 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; } ?>