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Posted by Steve Slater on 03/12/05 18:29
At 11:54 PM 3/11/2005, Stephen Johnson wrote:
>Just a quick and dirty solution - but couldn't you explode the name into
>an array and use the first and last array fields ?
$name_array = explode(" ",$name);
$short_name = "$name_array[0] " . end($name_array);
And a dozen other ways to do it I'm sure. I just finished a
project with a mess of pattern matching so have regex on the brain. :-)
Steve
>On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Steve Slater wrote:
>
>>Mario,
>>
>>Many ways to do it, most using regex. This is not as clean as it
>>can be but still shows the idea:
>>
>><?php
>>$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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