Simple PHP Quiz

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// Fun little quiz

Assuming this string: "January 5th, 2012"

In the shortest amount of code possible, place:

- 'January' within a $month variable
- '5th' within a $day variable
- '2012' within a $year variable.

See if you can accomplish this with one line of code. (And no snarky $month = 'January' answers.
Assume that the format always stays the same, but month, day, and year values can change with each referesh.

@topdown, what is the point of the trim() since there are no leading/following commas?

Combining @letsallplaygolf with @thecrypticace I get:

extract(date_parse(date('F jS Y')));

@xeoncross trim is stripping the comma
trim has an optional parameter for specifying a character list http://php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php
Wasn't thinking about date_parse already handling it.

@topdown I think @xeoncross was pointing out that trim() only trims characters from the beginning/end of a string, not the middle. So trim isn't required in your code :)

@JeffreyWay Nice teaser though. I didn't know about the sscanf() function.