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I have trying to use String commands to change works around and chose certain letters. For the life of me I can't figure it out.

This is what I'm trying to do.

$String = Thumb, Tom A.

I want to change it to say

TThumb by grabbing the first initial and last name. Now ordinarily that would be easy by uising a StringTrimLeft() but what if that name changes and you don't know how long the name is but the common thing is there is always a comma separating them.. I tried to use StringSplit() in conjuction but just can't get anywhere.

Anyone know how this can be done?

Thanks

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Hmm, try this:

Local $string = "Thumb, Tom A."
$LastName = StringSplit($string, ",")
$FirstLetter = StringLeft($string, 1)
$NewName = $FirstLetter & $LastName[1]
MsgBox(0,"",$NewName)

Kurt

Wow, I justed tested this and i thought the "first" position would be considered a space

$FirstLetter = StringLeft($string, 1)

so, thats why i used

StringStripWS($split[2], 8)

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You know it's shame, you guys make it seem so easy for something I've been trying for like 2 hours :">

THANK YOU both. :whistle:

Kurt:

By the way for some reason on your code, if change the first name to something else it will grab the beginning of the last name instead. For instance

$String = "Thumb, Bob A."

The results come back as TThumb still instead of BThumb. Just wanted to let you know. Anyhow, thanks for great headstart and reply.

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Hmm, try this:

Local $string = "Thumb, Tom A."
$LastName = StringSplit($string, ",")
$FirstLetter = StringLeft($string, 1)
$NewName = $FirstLetter & $LastName[1]
MsgBox(0,"",$NewName)

Kurt

I am not trying to say anything other than this code, I believe does not work.

If say the name of the person in question was = Doe, John

Your example would be DDoe.

Not saying your idea would not work with the Firstname being equal to the first char after the ,

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Nite, you make a point there.

that code takes the first letter of the last name and the last name and stitches them together.

so if you say the name is:

"a, b"

you have "aa" returned.. which is in-correct, you wish to have "ba" returned.

this line:

$NewName = $FirstLetter & $LastName[1]

should read:

$NewName = $FirstLetter & $LastName[2]

for it to return as needed .. assuming that i have gotten the idea behind the whole thing correct.

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