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Re: PHP Concatenate [message #178197 is a reply to message #178196]

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:42

Peter H. Coffin
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Registered: September 2010

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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.

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		PHP Concatenate By: Kevin Davis on Mon, 21 May 2012 18:47
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: bill on Mon, 21 May 2012 19:17
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Luuk on Mon, 21 May 2012 19:19
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 22 May 2012 12:21
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 22 May 2012 13:42
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Paul Herber on Tue, 22 May 2012 14:21
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 May 2012 15:37
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Luuk on Tue, 22 May 2012 18:18
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Luuk on Tue, 22 May 2012 18:30
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 22 May 2012 11:34
		Re: PHP Concatenate By: Nick Brooks on Tue, 05 June 2012 06:33

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