My web site is used by people from approximately of 90 countries.
- I will use just "name" instead of first name / last name.
- e-mail address
Ron Piggott
www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info
-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Williams
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 11:29 AM
To: Ron Piggott
Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Parsing the From field
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:23:59AM -0500, Ron Piggott wrote:
I am unsure of how to parse first name, last name and e-mail address from
the 'From:' field of an e-mail.
What I am struggling with is if the name has more than two words
- Such as the last name being multiple words
- A name a business or department is given instead of a personal name
- If the person has included their middle name, middle initial or degrees
(“Dr.”)
- If last name has multiple words
Also the formatting of the from field changes in various e-mail programs:
From: Ron Piggott <ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Ron Piggott" <ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: <ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
If there is more than 2 words for the name I would like them to be
assigned to the last name.
You can make no such assumption, different people/companies/... do it in
different ways.
If you really want to have fun look at the different 'norms' from different
countries.
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