note 7310 deleted from function.explode by jimw

EXPLODE and SPLIT have the same idea, but they're not the same. EXPLODE breaks up a string using another string as a delimiter, whereas SPLIT uses a regular expression. Thus, if your delimiter is a simple string, use explode. If its something more complicated that you can describe using a regex, then use split. <p> Thanks to the authors of the PHP manual from whom I borrowed that explanation almost word for word.