PHP explode() function in Actionscript for Flex

If you’re a long time PHP programmer who has made the leap to building Flex based RIA applications in Flex you are probably asking yourself from time to time “how do I do a xxxxx function in actionscript”. Well if you were recently wondering this about the PHP explode() function, here’s your answer.

public function explode( delimiter:String, str:String ):Array
{
   return str.split( delimiter );
}