Quick survey on coding techniques

G'day:
I'm just running a quick survey on my blog, and if you had a coupla min to write some code and post it for me, that'd be a big help.
This is the blog article, and this is a summary of the question:
Consider this string:
nz = "Aotearoa";
What I want is to see how you'd approach turning that into an array of characters, ie: so if you dumped it you'd get this:
array
1
A
2
o
3
t
4
e
5
a
6
r
7
o
8
a
That's it.
Thanks for helping (if you do, that is ;-)
Adam

Yup, once I get enough results. It'll go on my blog though, rather than here, but I'll post the URL when it's done. Probably won't be until next week though.
Adam

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