# 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` ] )

mb_split() split multibyte `string` using regular expression `pattern` and returns the result as an array.

If optional parameter `limit` is specified, it will be split in `limit` elements as maximum.

The internal encoding or the character encoding specified in mb_regex_encoding() will be used as character encoding.

See also: mb_regex_encoding(), mb_ereg().