explode single variable in php

Question

Here is what i have in php :

I need to do explode the given variable

$a = "hello~world";

I need to explode as

$first = "hello";
$second = "world";

How can i do this ??

Here is what i have tried so far.

<?php
$str = "a~b";
$a = (explode("~",$str));
$b = (explode("~",$str));
echo explode('.', 'a.b');

?>

I know i did wrong. What is my mistake and how can i fix this ?

Answer 1

If you know the number of variables you're expecting to get back (ie. 2 in this case) you can just assign them directly into a list:

list($first, $second) = explode('~', $a);
// $first = 'hello';
// $second = 'world';