note 9550 added to explode

I have not been able to use the third, optional parameter successfully. This results in an incorrect number of parameters error. An 'explode' that works correctly breaks as soon as I add a limit, something that would be very useful to me... $mystring = "Joe Bloggs Flat 1, 2 Mornington Place, London"; $info = explode(" ", $mystring, 3); Wouldn't it be nice if this gave an array populated like this... $info[0] "Joe" $info[1] "Bloggs" $info[2] "Flat 1, 2 Mornington Place, London" But I get the error described above :( http://www.php.net/manual/function.explode.php