# How to split all chars from string array

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** strings\
**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-split-all-chars-from-string-array/45965 "2020-09-02T17:59:21Z")\
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Don’t use `split(s, "")` to get “characters” — that returns 1-character strings, but Julia (unlike Python) has an actual character type. Use `collect` to get an array of characters.

(That being said, it’s rare to actually need to explicitly collect an array of characters during string processing — you can just loop over the characters directly. Unlike other dynamic languages, you don’t have to cram everything into “vectorized” operations to get good performance; often non-vectorized code is clearer and faster.)

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