Splitting strings in PHP and get last part

Question

I need to split a string in PHP by \"-\" and get the last part.

So from this:

abc-123-xyz-789

I expect to get

Answer 1

Since explode() returns an array, you can add square brackets directly to the end of that function, if you happen to know the position of the last array item.

$email = 'name@example.com';
$provider = explode('@', $email)[1];
echo $provider; // example.com

Or another way is list():

$email = 'name@example.com';
list($prefix, $provider) = explode('@', $email);
echo $provider; // example.com

If you don't know the position:

$path = 'one/two/three/four';
$dirs = explode('/', $path);
$last_dir = $dirs[count($dirs) - 1];
echo $last_dir; // four