Question

I have string like:

$message="AB 1234 Hello, how are you?

I want to get like this:

$message[0] = AB
$message[1] = 1234
$message[2] = Hello, how are you?

Please don’t suggest substr function because length of first two words may vary but they will have spaces in between.
Any other suggestion?

Answer 1

Use explode() with a limit, eg

$message = explode(' ', $message, 3);

If you need more flexibility around the word delimiter, you can do something similar with preg_split()

$message = preg_split('/[\s,]+/', $message, 3)

Demo – http://codepad.org/1gLJEFIa