PHP How to get the first word of a string

<?php $myvalue = 'Test me more'; $arr = explode(' ',trim($myvalue)); echo $arr[0]; // will print Test ?>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2476789/how-to-get-the-first-word-of-a-sentence-in-php/#answer-2476811

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We can use the function str_word_count() this way:

<?php
$text = " Test, me more? ";
$words = str_word_count($text,1);
echo $words[0];
?>

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