Return the portion of a string before the first occurrence of a character in php

Question

In PHP, what is the simplest way to return the portion of a string before the first occurrence of a specific character?

For example, if I have a string...

"The quick brown foxed jumped over the etc etc."

...and I am filtering for a space character (" "), the function would return "The"

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could do this:

$string = 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog';
$substring = substr($string, 0, strpos($string, ' '));

But I like this better:

list($firstWord) = explode(' ', $string);

Answer 2

$str = "The quick brown foxed jumped over the etc etc.";
$pattern = " ";
echo strstr($str, $pattern, true);

Prints 'The'.

Answer 3

How about this:

$string = "The quick brown fox jumped over the etc etc.";

$splitter = " ";

$pieces = explode($splitter, $string);

echo $pieces[0];

Answer 4

for googlers: strtok is better for that

echo strtok("The quick brown fox",  ' ');