removing @email.com from string in php

Question

I want to just get the left half of an email address ( the username part of username@email.com ), so stripping the @ and any characters after it.

Answer 1

Since nobody's used preg_match yet:

 user@email.com
            [1] => user
            [2] => @email.com
            [3] => email.com
        )
*/

    echo $match[1];  // output: `user`
?>

Using an array means if you decide later that you want the email.com part, you've already got it separated out and don't have to drastically change your method. :)