.. _functx_chars:

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functx:chars
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Converts a string to a sequence of characters

Description
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The functx:chars function splits a string into individual characters and returns 
them as a sequence of strings of length 1 each.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - arg:string()
     - the string to split

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - functx:chars('abc')
     - ('a', 'b', 'c')
   * - functx:chars('a b c')
     - ('a', ' ', 'b', ' ', 'c')

See Also
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* :ref:`tokenize`.