I figure most people will want a simple way to break-up a multibyte string into its individual characters. Here's a function I'm using to do that. Change UTF-8 to your chosen encoding method.
function mbStringToArray ($string) {
$strlen = mb_strlen($string);
while ($strlen) {
$array[] = mb_substr($string,0,1,"UTF-8");
$string = mb_substr($string,1,$strlen,"UTF-8");
$strlen = mb_strlen($string);
}
return $array;
}
mb_split
(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)
mb_split — Split multibyte string using regular expression
Description
array mb_split
( string $pattern
, string $string
[, int $limit
] )
Split a multibyte string using regular expression pattern and returns the result as an array.
Parameters
- pattern
-
The regular expression pattern.
- string
-
The string being split.
- limit
- If optional parameter limit is specified, it will be split in limit elements as maximum.
Return Values
The result as an array.
Notes
Note: The internal encoding or the character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding() will be used as the character encoding for this function.
mb_split
adjwilli at yahoo dot com
26-Dec-2007 09:37
26-Dec-2007 09:37
