Re: First Character In A String
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:10:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: First Character In A String | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:02 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote:
>
> <?php
>
> $initial = (is_string($forename) && strlen($forename) > 0)
> ? $forename[0]
> : ''
> ;
>
> echo trim($initial.' '.$surname);
>
> ?>
That sure is verbose Jochem...
<?php
echo trim( substr( (string)$forename, 0, 1 ).' '.$surname );
?>
Cheers,
Rob.
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