Quick PHP question

[Supermercado]

I'm trying to get something to work on my site and I'm having a little trouble getting some syntax right. I imagine I'm missing something pretty simple...

I've got text files with data in them. They go something like this:

xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx
yyyyyyyy|yyyyyyyy|yyyyyyyy

I'm reading the data from the text files line-by-line into strings with no problems. So I end up with two strings from the above sample file, "xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx" and "yyyyyyyy|yyyyyyyy|yyyyyyyy." Here's the problem. I'm trying to split them up into the three sections defined by the | character. For each of those strings, I'd get three smaller strings. I remember from doing a little perl a few years ago that there was a function that could split those up very easily into separate strings. The "split" function in php sort of looks like what I want but I've been having trouble getting it to do exactly what I want. Basically, is there a function in php that does what that perl function does? That'd make everything so much easier.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide. I hope this is a simple fix and I'm just missing something.

 

[Modeps]

split works fine, it throws the results into an array.
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.split.php

or you could use explode
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

 

[Supermercado]

Thanks, Modeps. It looks like explode() is similar to what I had in mind. I'll give that a shot in a bit and see if I can get it to work. Thanks.