Re: Switching First & Last Names in List

This works rather nicely, too: <?php $list = "Firstname1 LastName1 Firstname2 Lastname2"; $name_array = array(); $temp_array = explode("\n", $list); foreach ($temp_array as $name) { $name_array[] = explode(" ", $name); } print_r($name_array); ?> $name_array is now a multi-dimensional array with the first and last names separated. print_r should show you the values. Richard Davey wrote:

Hello Jeff, Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 3:24:57 PM, you wrote: JO> If I have a list like this: JO> Firstname1 LastName1 JO> Firstname2 Lastname2 JO> etc. JO> I can split the names by \n to put them into JO> an array which will then be output into an <option> JO> list for a form. But how do I reverse the names JO> so that the last name is first? Also, how do I JO> handle people with three names? Thanks. <? function swap (&$name) {

        $tmp_name = trim($name);
        $pos = strrpos($tmp_name, " ");
        $first_name = substr($tmp_name, 0, $pos);
        $surname = substr($tmp_name, $pos);
        $name = "$surname, $first_name";

} $raw_names = "richard davey susannah davey jeff oien willy three names jack van-der-meet"; $names = explode("\n", $raw_names); echo "<pre>"; print_r($names); array_walk($names, 'swap'); print_r($names); echo "</pre>"; ?> The echo and print_r lines are to show you what it has done. The $raw_names should be your list of names.

-- Regards, Ben Ramsey http://benramsey.com http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/People/BenRamsey