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Re: PHP Concatenate

Message-ID <4FBA9549.7090409@invalid.lan> (permalink)
Date 2012-05-21 21:19 +0200
From Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: PHP Concatenate
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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

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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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