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Re: Breaking name

From ravi kiran <nani37kiran57@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.sas
Subject Re: Breaking name
Date 2011-06-14 12:58 -0700
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On Jun 14, 3:32 pm, Ya <huang8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 14, 12:00 pm, ravi kiran <nani37kira...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > could anyone please let me know how to write the code for breaking a
> > name into initial. firstname
> > ex: dravid rahul--to---D.Rahul
>
> > thanks
> > kiran
>
> Something liket this:
>
> newname=cats(substr(scan(oldname,1,' '),1,1),'.',scan(oldname,2,' '));
>
> HTH
>
> Ya

thanks Ya

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Breaking name ravi kiran <nani37kiran57@gmail.com> - 2011-06-14 12:00 -0700
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    Re: Breaking name ravi kiran <nani37kiran57@gmail.com> - 2011-06-14 12:58 -0700

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