# How to break the strings

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-break-the-strings/73602
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** strings, char
**Created:** [December 25, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-break-the-strings/73602 "2021-12-25T03:47:15Z")
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### Author: ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-break-the-strings/73602/3 "2021-12-25T14:07:46Z")

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See also: [How to split all chars from string array - #4 by stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-split-all-chars-from-string-array/45965/4) — it’s relatively rare to need this, since you can get characters directly from a string by indexing/iterating, rather than `collect`-ing into a separate array first.

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