Availability
Flash Player 5.

Usage

 myString  .split("  delimiter  ", [  limit  ]) 

Parameters
delimiter The character or string at which myString splits. If the delimiter parameter is undefined, the entire string is placed in the first element of the array.

limit The number of items to place into the array. This parameter is optional.

Returns
An array containing the substrings of myString .

Description
Method; splits a String object into substrings by breaking it wherever the specified delimiter parameter occurs, and returns the substrings in an array. If you use an empty string ("") as a delimiter, each character in the string is placed as an element in the array, as in the following code.

myString = "Joe";
i = myString.split("");
trace (i);

The Output window displays the following:

J, O, E

If the delimiter parameter is undefined, the entire string is placed into the first element of the returned array.

Example
The following example returns an array with five elements.

myString = "P, A, T, S, Y";
myString.split(",");

This example returns an array with two elements.

myString.split(",", 2);