, Arpad Ray * @link http://php.net/function.str_split * @author Aidan Lister * @version $Revision: 1.17 $ * @since PHP 5 * @require PHP 4.0.0 (user_error) */ function php_compat_str_split($string, $split_length = 1) { if (!is_scalar($split_length)) { user_error('str_split() expects parameter 2 to be long, ' . gettype($split_length) . ' given', E_USER_WARNING); return false; } $split_length = (int) $split_length; if ($split_length < 1) { user_error('str_split() The length of each segment must be greater than zero', E_USER_WARNING); return false; } // Select split method if ($split_length < 65536) { // Faster, but only works for less than 2^16 preg_match_all('/.{1,' . $split_length . '}/s', $string, $matches); return $matches[0]; } else { // Required due to preg limitations $arr = array(); $idx = 0; $pos = 0; $len = strlen($string); while ($len > 0) { $blk = ($len < $split_length) ? $len : $split_length; $arr[$idx++] = substr($string, $pos, $blk); $pos += $blk; $len -= $blk; } return $arr; } } // Define if (!function_exists('str_split')) { function str_split($string, $split_length = 1) { return php_compat_str_split($string, $split_length); } }