How to avoid undefined offset

Question

How can you easily avoid getting this error/notice:

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/page.php on line 149

... in this code:

Answer 1

I'd probably break this up into two steps

$split = explode('|', $value);
$func = $split[0];
if(count($split) > 1)
  $field = $split[1];
else
  $field = NULL;

There's probably a quicker and neater way though.