Re: First Character In A String

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Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:27 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote:
>> Robert Cummings wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:02 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote:
>>>> <?php
>>>>
>>>> $initial = (is_string($forename) && strlen($forename) > 0)
>>>> 	 ? $forename[0]
>>>> 	 : ''
>>>> 	 ;
>>>>
>>>> echo trim($initial.' '.$surname);
>>>>
>>>> ?>
>>> That sure is verbose Jochem...
>> agreed, it was done on purpose in the spirit of 'give the OP
>> a hint about not assuming anything about the input', I could have done this:
>>
>> <?= trim(@$forename[0].' '),$surname; ?>
>>
>> which is as short as I can make it :-) it also assumes that the OP
>> actually santized the incoming data ($forename) before doing *anything* with
>> it.
> 
> Oh, I didn't make mine as short as I could, I sanitized it, and didn't
> cheat by using the error suppression operator ;)

consider it my evil streak :-)
indeed yours is the better.

> 
>>> echo trim( substr( (string)$forename, 0, 1 ).' '.$surname );

now we can get on with having a flame war as to the 'best' way to style
your code, because obviously this is better ;-) ...

echo trim(substr((string)$forename, 0, 1).' '.$surname);

> 
> Cheers,
> Rob.

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