Anyone have any idea on how to extract the first word in a string?

Please bear in mind the first word could be followed by any non-alphanumeric character such as a space, comma or question mark (for example).

erm i think there is, try using this, i use it to split dates down into days, months and years using many different seperators

PHP Code:

list($first_word, $utter_crap) = split('[ ?,]', $string); 


So the first word would be extracted to $first_word (suprise suprise!) and $utter_crap is the rest of the string.

[ ?,] is where we specifiy the seperators, but i'm not sure about the space bit

Try it.

Cool! It seems to work fine!

Thanks.