Posted by Jordan Miller on 09/20/05 18:19

to get rid of potential double spaces after the explode, you could do:
foreach ($words as $word) {
if (!empty($word)) {
$first = $word;
break;
}
}
echo $first;

This will always return the first word.

Jordan



On Sep 20, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Jochem Maas wrote:

> 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?
>

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