Fetch first item from the value list using (comma) limiter

I have items visually:

array(
 0 => '"abc","def",ghi', //"abc","def",ghi is just value. 0----N is the expected array
 1 => '"jkl", ...',
);

My actual written code in use is, so this is the concern:

array(
 '"abc","def",ghi', //"abc","def",ghi is just value. 0----N is the expected array
 '"jkl", ...',
);

I want to fetch "abc", but need to ignore the rest ,"def",ghi

How would I do that with PHP?

Thanks for any pointers.

$firstitem=explode(',',$yourarray[0]);

or

explode(",", $yourarray[0], 2);//to limit the explode so the resulting array does not contain unwanted elements

$firstitem[0] will contain the first characters of the first element from yourarray including "

$exp = explode(',', $myArray[0]);
print $exp[0];

$v = array(
 0 => '"abc","def",ghi', //"abc","def",ghi is just value. 0----N is the expected array
 1 => '"jkl", ...',
);

$x = reset(explode(',', $v[0]));

this is it?