preg_match all words start with an @?

Question

i\'m not very firm with regular Expressions, so i have to ask you:

How to find out with PHP if a string contains a word starting with @ ??

e.g. i have a string l

Answer 1

break your string up like this:

$string = 'simple sentence with five words';
$words = explode(' ', $string );

Then you can loop trough the array and check if the first character of each word equals "@":

if ($stringInTheArray[0] == "@")