Re: Re: Question about "shortening" a string

From:	Ashley M. Kirchner	Date:	Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:53:08 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: Question about "shortening" a string
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Mário Gamito wrote:

Hi Sokolewicz, Thanks a lot. It just working really fine :) M. Sokolewicz wrote: Mário Gamito wrote:
For example, if i fill the form with "Mário Augusto Machado dos
Reis Gamito", i want to change this string to only "Mário Gamito".
The total number of names is not fix. Could be 3, 4, 5, 6,... Does anyone knows how to do this ?
<?php $parts = explode(' ', $fullName); $shortenedName = $parts[0].' '.$parts[count($parts)-1]; ?> This might solve one problem. What about people who have names like 'Pablo Ricardo del Rey' where you can't simply pick first and last because their last name really is 'del Rey'. Or 'von Braun', or ...you get the idea.

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