Noob AJAX problem

I'm new to AJAX/PHP so it might be something simple. I'm retrieving a simple string from a webpage, which is just '1|2|3|4'. Four numbers seperated by the pipe symbol. It arrives fine but when I come to parse it, tokencount tells me that it sees 4 '|' symbols when clearly there are 3.

To check it's not an error in my program, I typed in the string directly into a variable and it parse that instead. In that case, it gives the correct answer of 3, so I don't think it's anything to do with my commands.

Is this something strange about AJAX/PHP or have I done something wrong?

tokencount tells you the number of "tokens". '1|2|3|4' has four tokens. '|' isn't a "token", its the numbers that are tokens.

Oh wow, I've been using 'tokenat' for years and always assuming the seperator was the token. Oddly, it doesn't matter if you get it wrong when using tokenat (if you assume tokenat 0 is the first seperator, you still get the first word anyway), but it does when you're using tokencount. Strangely, I was getting different results when using my AJAX.Lastdata string and an identical manual string, but it must've been because I was doing something slightly wrong.

Anyway, it's working fine now, thanks for putting that straight