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Re: PHP Concatenate [message #178203 is a reply to message #178198]

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:30

Luuk
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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(at)ninehells(dot)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 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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