Posted by Rik on 06/13/06 07:33

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?


preg_match('/^([0-9a-z]+)\b/i',$string, $vars);

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

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