Posted by Jochem Maas on 09/20/05 15:24

Gustav Wiberg wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I guess this is an easy question. I have string...
>
> "Hello you"
>
> and I want to get the "Hello" part.
>
> How do I do that? (I can of course search for first occurence of space
> and then use substr, but I guess there is an easier solution?

how much easier do you want it? oh and guessing kinda sucks.

$str = "Hello World";
$words = explode(" ", $str);
echo $words[0];

.... but what if you have double spaces, or a space at the beginning?

>
> /G
> http://www.varupiraten.se/
>

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