How to bring explode function into one combined line?

[toplisek]

Can be combined this rules?
$mytags_explode = explode(' ', $tag1 [0]);
$tag2 = ucfirst($mytags_explode['0']);

How to bring explode function into one combined line?

I have code into two lines.

[rocknbil]

I'm a little confused because you're using limit, which is 1,

If the limit parameter is zero, then this is treated as 1.

... so there should only be one item in the array if I interpret it correctly. But going with it, did you try this?

$tag2 = ucfirst(explode(' ', $tag1 [0])[0]);

[Matthew1980]

Hi all,

I would be interested to see the outcome to this, I am all for condensing code into more elegant chunks, but some functions don't like this being done; I had this happen a while ago and it surprised me to see that this [webmasterworld.com] was the cause of my issue here.

Sometimes for the use of debugging you need to have some pieces of code structured in certain ways so that echoing returned data/arrays is easier..

Cheers,
MRb

[coopster]

$tag2 = ucfirst(explode(' ', $tag1[0])[0]);

You'll get a parse error. This will work, but it breaks STRICT standards:

$tag2 = ucfirst(array_shift(explode(' ', $tag1[0]))); 
// Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference ...

If you really must reduce two lines of code you could use a combination of substring and strpos, or even a preg_replace.

$tag2 = preg_replace('/(\S+)\s.*/e', "ucfirst('$1')", trim($tag1[0]));