explode() help

[ssjskipp]

Okay, is there a way to explode, say:
$a = "test";
into an array of:
$array = ["t", "e", "s", "t"]

EDIT:

Nevermind, I got it:
"$chars = preg_split('//', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);"

[KrisNz]

str_split would be a bit faster.

[ssjskipp]

[!--quoteo(post=373653:date=May 14 2006, 12:43 AM:name=KrisNz)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(KrisNz @ May 14 2006, 12:43 AM) [snapback]373653[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
str_split would be a bit faster.
[/quote]
it's plenty fast for what I need.

[Barand]

You can treat a string as an array of characters

[code]$a = 'test';

for ($i=0; $i < 4; $i++)
{
         echo $a{$i} . '<br>';
}[/code]

-->
[code]t
e
s
t[/code]