title: PHP extract strings without RegEx
body: <p>Since I don't like using a regex I would like to ask if there's another easy way to extract values from a string.</p>
  
  <p>Example strings:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>send 0.2 XYZ ABC DEF</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>In the example above I would need to extract all values meaning I would need:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$string_1 = "send";
  $string_2 = "0.2";
  $string_3 = "XYZ";
  $string_4 = "ABC";
  $string_5 = "DEF";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there some way easy way to filter the above example? The "
  separating symbol" would be always a " " (blank space).</p>