[SOLVED] Explode a string by...nothing essentially? Seperate all chars into an array!

[Dale_G]

Hey everyone.

 

Say I have a string, which...could be any combination of letters and numbers.

 

For example.

 

$string = 'fhkhj4h21j';

 

How can I put ALL of the characters into an array and access them by $string[0], $string[1], $string[2], and so on and so on...

 

Basically...exploding the string by..nothing! Regardless of string content (numbers and letters), all individual characters will be put into an array.

 

How can that be done?

[trq]

<?php

  $string = 'fhkhj4h21j';
  echo $string[2];

?>

 

Works already!

[Dale_G]

Hah, wow.

 

Well, thanks. XD

[ToonMariner]

you can actually reference your string as an array in exactly the way you show.

 

$string{2} has been used but I believe in php6 you will only be able to use $string[2] notation.

 

so get the size of the 'array' just use strlen();

[Dale_G]

Oh, thanks for that extra info.