Question

How can I get a portion of the string from the beginning until the first non-alphabetic character?

Example strings:

• Hello World
• Hello&World
• Hello5World

I’d like to get "Hello" from each of the above input strings.

Answer 1

You need to use the preg_split feature.

$str = 'Hello&World';
$words = preg_split('/[^\w]/',$str);

echo $words[0];

You can access Hello by $words[0], and World by $words[1]