Retreiving express entries

Permalink January 02, 2020 at 5:06 PM

I have been playing with express a bit more lately and reading what I can find for documentation. I see about building a list:

$entity = Express::getObjectByHandle('employees');
$list = new \Concrete\Core\Express\EntryList($entity);
$list->filterByFullName('John Doe');   
$results = $list->getResults(); 
foreach($results as $r){
    $telephone= $r->getTelephone();
}

That's all good, but when I know "John Doe" is the name and all want is his phone number, is there a way to pull just John Doe's record without building a list and having to use a foreach?

Thanks