Are you trying to achieve this in the db or for the application? It sounds
like the application, in which case I would get the string from the db and
then use substr to pull out the various elements.
$first_name = substr($rows['name'],0,1);
$last_name = substr($rows['name'],1);
Bastien
From: "Chris Payne" <cjp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: String manipulation
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 00:48:58 -0400
Hi there everyone,
I'm working with a mysql Db where I have a single string that I have to
split into 2 strings, the first character is the first name and I have that
split off into it's own variable, but what I need to know is what's the
best
method to read the string again BUT ignore the first letter as that is
already copied into $firstname? So basically I have $firstname defined
from
the one string, but I have to define $lastname from the SAME string value
as
the one I used for $firstname, BUT ignoring the first letter but I'm not
sure what the best method is to achieve this?
Any help would be very appreciated.
Chris
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