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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