to get rid of potential double spaces after the explode, you could do: foreach ($words as $word) { if (!empty($word)) { $first = $word; break; } } echo $first; This will always return the first word. Jordan On Sep 20, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Jochem Maas wrote:
how much easier do you want it? oh and guessing kinda sucks. $str = "Hello World"; $words = explode(" ", $str); echo $words[0]; ... but what if you have double spaces, or a space at the beginning?
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