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Re: PHP Concatenate

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On 22-05-2012 16:21, Paul Herber wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2012 08:42:54 -0500, "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 22 May 2012 08:21:27 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> On 5/21/2012 3:19 PM, Luuk wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> What about "John Smith Jr"?
>>
>> Or "Carlos Salinas de Gortari"?
>>
>> To cut to the important point, "dropping middle initial" is a kind
>> of simple problem surround by worm-cans with very weak lids. Pretty
>> much the least damaging thing you can do is drop punctuation and any
>> single-letter (not single character, just Latin letter) words, using two
>> passes with regexp processing. Usually if someone has put something into
>> a field on form asking for their name, whatever they've put there is
>> important to them.
>>
>> You'll still piss off will.i.am of The Black-Eyed Peas even with that
>> simple step.
> 
> and anyone with the surname De'Ath.
> 
> 
> 

<?php
$name="Kevin R. De'Ath";
$a=split(" ",$name);
print $a[0]." ".$a[count($a)-1];
print "\n";

// Second solution, so J. R. R. Tolkien is also handled correctly
$name="J. R. R. Tolkien";
$a=split(" ",$name);
for ($f=0; $f<count($a); $f++)
        if (substr($a[$f],strlen($a[$f])-1,1)!="." or $f==0) print
$a[$f]." ";
print "\n";

?>


output:
Kevin De'Ath
J. Tolkien

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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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