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Re: PHP Concatenate

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On 5/21/2012 2:47 PM, Kevin Davis wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Here is what I'm trying to do.. I'm trying to merge the first and last name (that I can do) into an email address. But what I'm trying to do is to drop the middle initial. If the entry was from a form, I would have no problem, but the data will be uploaded from a different source, how would I go about dropping the middle initial?
>
> Would I use regex??
>
> Thank you,
> Kevin

I really hate to ask these because I fear the answers:

will there always be a middle initial ?

Will there be any first or last names with embedded spaces ? (eg 
Jean Paul Aloysius Smith ?

bill

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PHP Concatenate Kevin Davis <kevindavis338@gmail.com> - 2012-05-21 11:47 -0700
  Re: PHP Concatenate bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2012-05-21 15:17 -0400
  Re: PHP Concatenate Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-05-21 21:19 +0200
    Re: PHP Concatenate Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-22 08:21 -0400
      Re: PHP Concatenate "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-05-22 08:42 -0500
        Re: PHP Concatenate Paul Herber <paul@pherber.com> - 2012-05-22 15:21 +0100
          Re: PHP Concatenate The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-22 16:37 +0100
          Re: PHP Concatenate Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-05-22 20:18 +0200
          Re: PHP Concatenate Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-05-22 20:30 +0200
  Re: PHP Concatenate Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-22 04:34 -0700
  Re: PHP Concatenate Nick Brooks <nbrooks@thirtyseven.com.au> - 2012-06-04 23:33 -0700

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