help replacing split() please.

[allan smith]

I have the following code aand understand split()is deprecated - please can someone help out with replacement code.

foreach ($lines as $l) {
  if (trim($l) != "") {
    $t = (array)split("\r\n", trim($l));
    if ($t[1] == 'TRUE') $total_items++;
  }
} 

Thanks

Allan