Multiple preg_match and explode

[luiddog]

There must be a cleaner, faster way of doing this

$Address_valid = ///address;

if(preg_match("/#/",$Address_valid)) {
$Address_valid = explode("#",$Address_valid);
$Address_valid = $Address_valid[0];
}
if(preg_match("/@/",$Address_valid)) {
$Address_valid = explode("@",$Address_valid);
$Address_valid = $Address_valid[0];
}
if(preg_match("/&/",$Address_valid)) {
$Address_valid = explode("7",$Address_valid);
$Address_valid = $Address_valid[0];
}

[NogDog]

If the intent is to truncate everything from the first occurrence of any of those 3 characters you could just do:

$Address_valid = preg_replace('/[#@&].*$/', '', $Address_valid);