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Posted by Stephen Johnson on 03/12/05 09:54
Just a quick and dirty solution - but couldn't you explode the name
into an array and use the first and last array fields ?
On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Steve Slater wrote:
> Mario,
>
> Many ways to do it, most using regex. This is not as clean as it
> can be but still shows the idea:
>
> <?php
> $name = "Mario Augusto Machado dos Reis Gamito";
> preg_match ("/^(\w+)(\W*)(\w+\W+)*(\w+)$/",$name,$matches);
> $short_name = "$matches[1] $matches[4]";
> ?>
>
> This example works for any number of middle names (including zero)
> and any number of white spaces between words. You can probably
> get this more elegant, but this is one idea.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>> In Portgal we have big names.
>> My complete name, for instance, is "Mário Augusto Machado dos Reis
>> Gamito".
>> "Mário" is the Christian name and "Gamito" - the last one - is always
>> the last name of the father.
>>
>> I have a form where i want to let my users insert their full big name
>> like mine, but i want to shorten them just to the first and the last.
>>
>> 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,...
>> My son name is "Manuel Ramos Gamito". Only 3 names.
>> Should be changed to "Manuel Gamito", also.
>>
>> I've looked at the strings functions in the manual, made a lot of
>> experiences, but couldn't get there :(
>>
>> Does anyone knows how to do this ?
>>
>> Any help would be apreciated.
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>> Mário Gamito
>>
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