Posted by Kim Madsen on 03/16/05 14:24

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From: Steve Slater [mailto:slater@handsonsecurity.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 5:29 PM

$name_array = explode(" ",$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. :-)

Hehe, I know the feeling

Ereg solution:

eregi("^([a-z] ).* ?([a-z])$", $name, $regs);
print "the name in short is $regs[1] $regs[2]";

But when dealing with names I think Your approach is better since there´s all kinds of chararcters from language to language, in Denmark ÆæØøÅå, in sweden äÄöÖ and so on. Of course I could do something like:
ereg("^(.+ ).* ?(.+)$", $name, $regs); // untested

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