Concatenating names from form

I want to be able to read in names from a web-based form and then take the first initial from the first name and concatenate it with the whole last name. I can do everything except isolate the first initial in the first name. Anyone know of an easy way to do this with a regex or reading the

Re: Concatenating names from form

So what's your input ? and you's your supposed output ? regards, Connie in sick _ - Original Message - From: Paul Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: Concatenating names from form I want to be able to read in names from a

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Hi all, This is a mess now... I even have no concept on how to start. I will working on something like this There are 2 interface as input. One is a Web interface, which will accept HTML tag and plain text by POST method, but by GET method, the input would be an URL. Another One is a

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Re: Concatenating names from form

on Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:48:37 GMT, Paul Arsenault wrote: I can do everything except isolate the first initial in the first name. Anyone know of an easy way to do this my $firstname = 'Paul'; my $initial = substr($firstname, 0, 1); See perldoc -f substr -- felix -- To

Re: Concatenating names from form

Thanks Felix, This is exactly what I was looking for! Paul From: Felix Geerinckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Concatenating names from form Date: 4 Jul 2002 10:37:33 - on Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:48:37 GMT, Paul Arsenault wrote: I can do everything except isolate

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John, are you able to dump the total output (including headers) for this CGI? joel -Original Message- From: John Pitchko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 July 2002 15:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: too many headers from CGI script (max 200) Hello, I keep receiving the following

RE: too many headers from CGI script (max 200)

Thanks, but I think I solved the problem. I was loading an array with all the contents of a particular directory and I don't think it liked having so many (for some strange reason). Either Perl or CGI.pm was unhappy with that. Anyways, thanks for the help. John Pitchko Data Services Joel