How to obtain the last word of a string

Question

we have that string:

\"I like to eat apple\"

How can I obtain the result \"apple\" ?

Answer 1

Get last word of string

$string ="I like to eat apple";
$las_word_start = strrpos($string, ' ') + 1; // +1 so we don't include the space in our result
$last_word = substr($string, $last_word_start);
echo $last_word // last word : apple