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Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 21:19:37 +0200
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On 21-05-2012 20:47, 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 

$name="Kevin R. Davis";
$a=split(" ",$name);
print $a[0]." ".$a[count($a)-1];

It should print:
Kevin Davis