What is the best method to extract text before a specific special character in PHP?

To extract text before a specific special character in PHP, you can use the `strstr()` function in combination with `substr()` to achieve this. The `strstr()` function will return the substring starting from the beginning of the string up to the specified special character, and then `substr()` can be used to extract the desired portion of the string. 

$string = "Hello, World! This is a sample text.";
$special_character = ",";

$text_before_special_character = strstr($string, $special_character, true); // Get the substring before the special character
$extracted_text = substr($text_before_special_character, 0, -1); // Remove the trailing space if needed

echo $extracted_text; // Output: Hello

Keywords

PHP string manipulation substr strpos special character

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