note 13998 deleted from function.explode by jimw

When setting the LIMIT, you need to start with 2, not 1. 1 has no effect at all. The limit is NOT the number of splits (i.e. the number of times you split), but rather the number of pieces left AFTER the split. This might be a useful point to add into the docs here and for split() too if applicable. Most people probably figure it out, but it's somewhat counter-intuitive. I guess I'm slow. Thus this code: $string = "cats_dogs_mice"; $array = explode ("_", $string, 1) Results in this array which has clearly not exploded the string: $array[0] = "cats_dogs_mice" The proper way to explode out the first element ("cats) would be: $string = "cats_dogs_mice"; $array = explode ("_", $string, 2) Which would produce: $array[0] = "cats"; $array[1] = "dogs_mice"; Usually, when working with counting, programmers have to start with zero, rather than one as we were taught in first grade. Here though, we have to start counting with two. :-)