note 85364 deleted from function.preg-split by danbrown

Note Submitter: merlinyoda at dotproject dot net ---- I response to the post of "harrismw at ids dot org dot au" below: it *is* just as simple as escaping characters! Characters the question mark ('?'), the dollar sign ('$') and all types of "braces" ('(', ')', '{', '}', '[', ']') have special meaning in regular expressions. As noted in the manual above, if you don't need the power and flexibility that regular expressions provide (i.e. you are looking to split on a specific literal string) then you are better off using functions like explode().