Splitting Strings

[gerkintrigg]

Hi.

I am trying to make post code search and need to be able to break strings apart by character. I can do it by spaces and things using the explode() function, but I want to be able to get the first letter of the string only, the first and second only, first second and third etc.

 

I forgot how I did it before and can't find any code to help me.

 

Hope you guys and girls can help

 

Thanks,

 

Neil

[jitesh]

http://php.net/split

 

By split get array of characters and use elements as per need.

[chigley]

I use this:

 

<?php

$string = "hello!";

$array = preg_split('//', $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

echo "<pre>".print_r($array,true)."</pre>";

?>

[gerkintrigg]

awesome...

Thanks guys. I used Chigley's solution and it seems to work the best.