String parsing question.

[Anon]

Suppose I have the string:

"every good boy does fine"

. . . and I only want to get the first word "every" from the string.

What's the easiest way to do this? I assume you would need to check for the first white space character, find its string position, and then do a substr() or something on the string?

Or does PHP have a more direct way of doing this?

Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't want to spend half a day "rolling my own" function and then testing if there's something in the library that already does this.

Thanks.

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simplest way:
use strpos to find the first space, then use substr to grab from the string.

There are 'easier' ways, but they waste lots of cpu and memory.