Posted by Martie on 10/10/80 11:50

On 13 Jun 2006 04:11:56 -0700, lorento wrote...
>
>Try use explode function:
>
>$var1 = "John A. Smith";
>$var1 = explode (" ", $var1);
>$var2 = $var1[0];
>

I prefer to use that function too! Puts everything in a nice tidy ordered array
and can always put the information together however you want.

Martie
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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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