parsing | (7c)

I need to parse a file that is delimited by the | character (hex 7c) and I can't get it to work. A little subset of what i am tring to do is:
<?php
$text = "number|name|type";
echo $text; // echos right
$newtext = split("|", $text);
//$newtext = split("x7C", $text); not working either
print_r($newtext);
?>

try the explode function

Thanks,

it worked like this:

<?php
$text = "number|name|type";
echo $text; // echos right
$newtext = explode("|", $text);
print_r($newtext);
?>