Array to string

Hi, I've spent a few hours on a problem: function find_first($fullname) { $char = 0; do { $first[$char] = $fullname[$char]; $char++; } while (($fullname[$char] != " ") && ($fullname[$char] != '\n') && ($char < 50)); return $first; } Basically, "$fullname" is a string. $fullname[$char] works fine, the loop stops when the end of the first name is encountered, and in the case of Joe Schmoe, "J" and "o" and "e" are the array elements. Problem is, when I return $first at the end and echo it... It literally becomes the string "Array." The same happens if I do: $first .= ""; The variable $first is of type "string" with the value "Array". I want $first to be a string. In the case of Joe Schmoe, it should be the string "Joe". How? I've tried everything I can think of.... -- Kindest regards, Erik J. Barzeski 99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, fix one bug, compile it again... 101 little bugs in the code.... ************************************************ Email: erik@barzeski.com Web: http://www.barzeski.com/ http://www.soundsetcentral.com/ http://www.applescriptcentral.com/ AIM: iacas ICQ: 8186546 ************************************************