split vs. explode in php

Question

What is the difference between explode and split in php?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3690495/split-vs-explode-in-php

Answer 1

explode splits strings.

split also does this, except it has support for splitting using regular expressions.

preg_split also does this and is 25-50% faster and has support for (IMO) much more extensible Perl-compatible regular expressions.