|  | Posted by lorento on 06/13/06 11:11 
Try use explode function:
 $var1 = "John A. Smith";
 $var1 = explode (" ", $var1);
 $var2 = $var1[0];
 
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 moxie19@gmail.com wrote:
 > Hello,
 >
 > It's my first post, hopefully I can get some help here.
 >
 > I have a string like: $var1 = "John A. Smith"
 > What I am looking to do is extract the first name out of the entire
 > string into a new variable, so it would be something like this: $var2 =
 > "John"
 >
 > Anybody know an easy way to accomplish this?
 >
 > Thanks in advance
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