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

explode returns an array. explode will break the given string in to parts using given character(here its ~) and will return an array with the exploded parts.

$a = "hello~world";
$str_array = explode("~",$a);

$first = $str_array[0];
$second = $str_array[1];

echo $first." ".$second;