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         


        

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';