extract first part of an email address

[imnu]

Need help with extracting the userid part of an email address through string processing functions. For example, I would like to return a string variable with a value of "imnu1234" from [e-mail].

[laserlight]

One way of doing that would be to use explode(), e.g.

$email = "[e-mail]";
$email = explode("@", $email);
echo $email[0];

[imnu]

Thanks for the prompt response. I will give it a try.

You are fast as laserlight!

[imnu]

It works (Of course you knew that!). Can you explain what "explode" does? Does it mean splitting the string at @ and assign the string chunks to an array?

[kevinsequeira]

take a look

http://www.php.net/manual/function.explode.php

reg
kevin

[laserlight]

Does it mean splitting the string at @ and assign the string chunks to an array?

well, that is quite logical based on the result, isnt it? 🙂

anyway, take a look at the link kevinsequeira provided for more info

[imnu]

Thanks to both of you. I took a quick look at the function. What I said wasn't too far away, was it?