Re: [PHP] Dividing, and keeping, text from the first space

[Kevin Murphy]

On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:30 PM, Dave M G wrote:

PHP List,

This regular expression stuff is way tricky.

Thanks to help from this list, I have an expression that will  
select the first word of a string, up to the first white space:
"#^(.*)\s#iU"

But after some consideration, I realized that I wanted to keep both  
parts of the original text. The first word, and then everything  
that came after it, should be divided and stored in separate  
variables.

Now, I would do this different. Probably "wrong" but instead of a  
regular expression here, I would do something like this:

$array = explode(" ",$string);
$first_word = $array[0];
$rest_words = substr_replace($string,"",0,strlen($first_word));

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