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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: foreach() for strings
From: johncrenshaw@priacta.com (John Crenshaw)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Ferrara [mailto:ircmaxell@gmail.com]=20
>=20
> > text_to_array($s) =3D=3D str_split($s, 1)
>=20
> No, because str_split always splits into 1 byte chunks.  text_to_array
> would take the character set into account (or that's where the utility
> in it would be)...

I think this does what you want:

function utf8_str_split($s)
{
	return preg_split("/(.)/u", $s, null, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE | PREG_SPLI=
T_NO_EMPTY);
}

John Crenshaw
Priacta, Inc.