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Originally Posted by squidsk

The better solution would be to replace the function call to split with a call to preg_split, as per the php documentation for the split command.

Actually, explode is the better call. As per the TIP for split:

preg_split(), which uses a Perl-compatible regular expression syntax, is often a faster alternative to split(). If you don't require the power of regular expressions, it is faster to use explode(), which doesn't incur the overhead of the regular expression engine.