Shortcut for: $foo = explode(“ ”, “bla ble bli”); echo $foo[0]

Question

is there a way to get the n-th element of a splitted string without using a variable?

My PHP code always looks like this:

$foo = explode(\" \", \"bla         


        

Answer 1

I don't know of a way to do what you want, even though I've wanted to do the same thing many times before. For that specific case you could do

$bar = substr($foo, 0, strpos($foo, " "));

which stops there being one extra variable, but isn't exactly what you wanted.