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From: Steve Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 5:29 PM
$name_array = explode(" ",$name);
$short_name = "$name_array[0] " . end($name_array);
> And a dozen other ways to do it I'm sure. I just finished a
> project with a mess of pattern mat
At 11:54 PM 3/11/2005, Stephen Johnson wrote:
Just a quick and dirty solution - but couldn't you explode the name into
an array and use the first and last array fields ?
$name_array = explode(" ",$name);
$short_name = "$name_array[0] " . end($name_array);
And a dozen other ways to do it I'm sure.
Just a quick and dirty solution - but couldn't you explode the name
into an array and use the first and last array fields ?
On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Steve Slater wrote:
Mario,
Many ways to do it, most using regex. This is not as clean as it
can be but still shows the idea:
This example wor
Mario,
Many ways to do it, most using regex. This is not as clean as it
can be but still shows the idea:
This example works for any number of middle names (including zero)
and any number of white spaces between words. You can probably
get this more elegant, but this is one idea.
Steve
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