Get first value of comma separated string

list($first) = explode(',', 'a,b,c,d');
var_dump($first);  // a

probably works :)

In PHP 6.0 you will be able to simply:

$first = explode(',', 'a,b,c,d')[0];

But this is a syntax error in 5.x and lower

How about

echo reset(explode(',', 'a,b,c,d'))

Steve

It's little bit shorter

strtok('a,b,c,d', ",")

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