Break up string into two when there is a space.

[Orionsbelter]

Hi there i stuck and wondering it is is possible to break up a string into two where there is a space for example

 

$fullName="John Doe";

 

i wish to break the string up into

 

$firstName="John";

$lastName="Doe";

 

I need the script to break the two names up from the space it can not contain the space such as

 

$firstName="John ";

$lastName=" Doe";

 

It must split it in two and remove that white space.

 

Pleas help me i'm sure it must be able to do this.

[sader]

list($first, $last) = explode(" ", $str);

[Orionsbelter]

will that not put two strings together? i wish to take one part

[sader]

explode() splits string into peaces by seperator implode() joins array of string/nums into one string by given glue.

If u ineterested what list does read about it in manual.

 

I could do it the same with this, but a bit more code is required

$person_data =  explode(" ", $str);
$first = $person_data[0];
$last = $person_data[1];

[salathe]

Depending on how restricted the input is, you'll probably want to use the limit parameter for explode as well:

 

// Limit to two parts so "John Smith Jnr" becomes "John" and "Smith Jnr"
list($first, $last) = explode(" ", $fullName, 2);

 

[Orionsbelter]

Thank you both of you this is very good and i will learn this so i understand the code