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

close. the right track is making a function or method for something that gets repeated.

function extract_word($input, $index) {
    $input = explode(' ', $input);
    return $input[$index];
}

add a third argument of $separater = ' ' if you may have different word separaters.