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Problem: After the first space in the string no data appears in the input field.
There is an issue when a string contains words with spaces and we want to display the whole string in an input field but after the first space, no data is displayed in the input field.
Solution:This problem occurs when we don’t display the string in double quotes.
For example: The string is:
$var= ”this is the first string”;
In this case, input field shows only “this” and rest of the string is not displayed.
So to overcome this problem we have to use the variable in double quotes and the whole string is displayed as it is.
For example:
$var=”this is the first string”;
This is the right way.
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Questions : How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
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I want to extract the first word of a anycodings_text-segmentation variable from a string. For example, take anycodings_text-segmentation this input:
The resultant output should be Test, which anycodings_text-segmentation is the first word of the input. How can I do anycodings_text-segmentation this?
Total Answers 16
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Answers 1 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
There is a string function [strtok] anycodings_text-segmentation which can be used to split a string into anycodings_text-segmentation smaller strings [tokens] based on some anycodings_text-segmentation separator[s]. For the purposes of this anycodings_text-segmentation thread, the first word [defined as anycodings_text-segmentation anything before the first space anycodings_text-segmentation character] of Test me more can be anycodings_text-segmentation obtained by tokenizing the string on the anycodings_text-segmentation space character.
For more details and examples, see the anycodings_text-segmentation strtok PHP manual page.
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mRahman
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Answers 2 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
You can use the explode function as anycodings_text-segmentation follows:
$myvalue = 'Test me more';
$arr = explode[' ',trim[$myvalue]];
echo $arr[0]; // will print Test
Another example:
$sentence = 'Hello World this is PHP';
$abbreviation = explode[' ', trim[$sentence ]][0];
echo $abbreviation // will print Hello
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2022-09-15T09:01:06+00:00 2022-09-15T09:01:06+00:00Answer Link
miraj
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Answers 3 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
If you have PHP 5.3
$myvalue = 'Test me more';
echo strstr[$myvalue, ' ', true];
note that if $myvalue is a string with anycodings_text-segmentation one word strstr doesn't return anything anycodings_text-segmentation in this case. A solution could be to anycodings_text-segmentation append a space to the test-string:
echo strstr[ $myvalue . ' ', ' ', true ];
That will always return the first word anycodings_text-segmentation of the string, even if the string has anycodings_text-segmentation just one word in it
The alternative is something like:
$i = strpos[$myvalue, ' '];
echo $i !== false ? $myvalue : substr[ $myvalue, 0, $i ];
Or using explode, which has so many anycodings_text-segmentation answers using it I won't bother pointing anycodings_text-segmentation out how to do it.
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raja
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Answers 4 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
You could do
echo current[explode[' ',$myvalue]];
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jidam
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Answers 5 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
Even though it is little late, but PHP anycodings_text-segmentation has one better solution for this:
$words=str_word_count[$myvalue, 1];
echo $words[0];
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joy
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Answers 6 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
Similar to accepted answer with one less anycodings_text-segmentation step:
$my_value = 'Test me more';
$first_word = explode[' ',trim[$my_value]][0];
//$first_word == 'Test'
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jidam
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Answers 7 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
Just in case you are not sure the string anycodings_text-segmentation starts with a word...
$input = ' Test me more ';
echo preg_replace['/[\s*][[^\s]*][.*]/', '$2', $input]; //Test
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raja
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Answers 8 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
Just use explode to get every word of anycodings_text-segmentation the input and output the first element anycodings_text-segmentation of the resulting array.
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raja
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Answers 9 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
Using split function also you can get anycodings_text-segmentation the first word from string.
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joy
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Answers 10 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
$string = ' Test me more ';
preg_match['/\b\w+\b/i', $string, $result]; // Test
echo $result;
/* You could use [a-zA-Z]+ instead of \w+ if wanted only alphabetical chars. */
$string = ' Test me more ';
preg_match['/\b[a-zA-Z]+\b/i', $string, $result]; // Test
echo $result;
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miraj
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Answers 11 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
strtok is quicker than extract or preg_* anycodings_text-segmentation functions.
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joy
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Answers 12 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
$input = "Test me more"; echo preg_replace["/\s.*$/","",$input]; // "Test"
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raja
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Answers 13 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
personally strsplit / explode / strtok anycodings_text-segmentation does not support word boundaries, so to anycodings_text-segmentation get a more accute split use regular anycodings_text-segmentation expression with the \w
preg_split['/[\s]+/',$string,1];
This would split words with boundaries anycodings_text-segmentation to a limit of 1.
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jidam
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Answers 14 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
If you want to know how fast each of anycodings_text-segmentation these respective functions is, I ran anycodings_text-segmentation some crude benchmarking in PHP 7.3 on anycodings_text-segmentation the six most voted answers here [strpos anycodings_text-segmentation with substr, explode with current, anycodings_text-segmentation strstr, explode with trim, anycodings_text-segmentation str_word_count and strtok] with anycodings_text-segmentation 1,000,000 iterations each to compare anycodings_text-segmentation their speeds.
Here are the varying results from 2 anycodings_text-segmentation consecutive runs:
strpos/ substr: 6.0736894607544E-8 seconds
strstr: 5.0434112548828E-8 seconds
explode/ current: 3.5163116455078E-7 seconds
explode/ trim: 3.8683795928955E-7 seconds
str_word_count: 4.6665270328522E-6 seconds
strtok: 4.9849510192871E-7 seconds
strpos/ substr: 5.7171106338501E-8 seconds
strstr: 4.7624826431274E-8 seconds
explode/ current: 3.3753299713135E-7 seconds
explode/ trim: 4.2293286323547E-7 seconds
str_word_count: 3.7025549411774E-6 seconds
strtok: 1.2249300479889E-6 seconds
And the results after inverting the anycodings_text-segmentation order of the functions:
strtok: 4.2612719535828E-7 seconds
str_word_count: 4.1899878978729E-6 seconds
explode/ trim: 9.3175292015076E-7 seconds
explode/ current: 7.0811605453491E-7 seconds
strstr: 1.0137891769409E-7 seconds
strpos/ substr: 1.0082197189331E-7 seconds
Conclusion It turns out that the speed anycodings_text-segmentation between these functions varies widely anycodings_text-segmentation and is not as consistent between test anycodings_text-segmentation runs as you might expect. According to anycodings_text-segmentation these quick and dirty tests, any of the anycodings_text-segmentation six chosen functions will get the job anycodings_text-segmentation done in a reasonable amount of time. anycodings_text-segmentation There are perturbations including other anycodings_text-segmentation processes running that are interfering anycodings_text-segmentation with the execution times. So just use anycodings_text-segmentation whatever function makes the most anycodings_text-segmentation practical and readable sense to you as a anycodings_text-segmentation programmer. For the bigger programming anycodings_text-segmentation picture, see Donald Knuth's Literate anycodings_text-segmentation Programming.
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raja
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Answers 15 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
$first_word = str_word_count[1][0]
Doesn't work on special characters, and anycodings_text-segmentation will result in wrong behaviour if anycodings_text-segmentation special characters are used. It is not anycodings_text-segmentation UTF-8 friendly.
For more info check is PHP anycodings_text-segmentation str_word_count[] multibyte safe?
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raja
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Answers 16 : of How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP
You question could be reformulated as anycodings_text-segmentation "replace in the string the first space anycodings_text-segmentation and everything following by nothing" . anycodings_text-segmentation So this can be achieved with a simple anycodings_text-segmentation regular expression:
$firstWord = preg_replace["/\s.*/", '', ltrim[$myvalue]];
I have added an optional call to ltrim[] anycodings_text-segmentation to be safe: this function remove spaces anycodings_text-segmentation at the begin of string.
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2022-09-15T09:01:06+00:00 2022-09-15T09:01:06+00:00Answer Link
joy