All I want to do is get the first word from a string, it does work, but how do I get rid of the comma as well, right now I'm getting name, I want it to to just display the name with no commas or characters after.
<?php $pet_name = $pet->pet_name(); $arr = explode(' ',trim($pet_name));?>
<h1><?= $arr[0] ?></h1>
preg_split might be more helpful here than explode:
<?php
$pet_name = $pet->pet_name();
$arr = preg_split('/[ ,]/', $pet_name, null, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
?>
This will treat any sequence of spaces and commas as delimiter when splitting up the name.
explode(' ', 'Smith, John'); // ['Smith,', 'John']
explode(' ', 'Smith,John'); // ['Smith,John']
preg_split('/[ ,]/', 'Smith, John', null, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); // ['Smith', 'John']
preg_split('/[ ,]/', 'Smith,John', null, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); // ['Smith', 'John']
$name = str_replace(',','',$arr[0]);
str_replace is used to replace the comma with nothing
I see two ways of doing this.
First way. The way I suggest :
rtrim($arr[0], ',');
Second way. The problem with this is, if the last caracter is not a commas, it will also remove it :
substr($arr[0], 0, strlen($arr[0]) - 1);
