can I 'explode' every character in a string?

I know how to use the explode function. But i want to explode every character in a string (with out using a separator). for example, make:

"some string"

into an array:

Array
(
[0] => s
[1] => o
[2] => m
[3] => e
[4] =>
[5] => s
[6] => t
[7] => r
[8] => i
[9] => n
[10] => g
)

I want to explode everything (not just at the separator).

how can this be done??

 

This is already done. $string[0] is the first character, $string[1] is the 2nd character, etc.

 

brendandonhue's answer is correct, but you can also use something like this:

$string = 'your string';

for($i=0;$i< strlen($string);$i++){

$array[] = substr($string, $i , 1);

}

PHP:

 

what exactly do you need to do this for? maybe someone here can think of a better way of doing it if you explain what you need it for?

 

www.php.net/str_split

Or www.php.net/preg_split with an empty pattern. (For PHP 4)

 

There's no reason to reinvent the wheel (and use the overhead of a loop or the regular expression engine.) Accessing characters in a string like array elements is already built in to PHP.

 

I was going to answer the same way brendandonhue did, but I checked out str_split that nico_swd posted, and it does exactly this, and lets you choose how many characters to put in each element.