title: How to turn a string into an array?
body: <p>Assuming I have a string like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$x = "abc"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to know, How can I turn it into an array like: <code>("a","b","c")</code> ???</p>
  
  <p>Currently I use something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$x -split ""
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that gives me an array like: <code>("","a","b","c","")</code> with an empty element before and after the other ones...</p>
  
  <p>I can circumvent this doing <code>$x -split "" -ne ""</code>, but that seems kind of weird. Is there a better way?</p>