Removing middlename...

Hi everyone!

I want to get rid of the middlename of a person before outputting it. Since it isn't my database I can't do anything about the middlenames.

It would do this:

$name = "Michael 'Bulldozer' Karlsson";

[removing the middlename (which is always between singlequotes) ]

$name = "Michael Killind";

How can I do this?

Thanks
Vasse

Ooops, the name should be
$name = "Michael Karlsson";
afterwards of course!

<?
$name = explode (' ', $name);
$name = $name[0] . ' ' . $name[2];
?>

this assumes that name is always in the format: first middle last

Thanks!
But it had to look like this to work properly:

if(ereg("'", $name)) {
$name = explode (' ', $name);
$name = $name[0] . ' ' . $name[4];
}

Note: The spaces are also put in the array.
[0] = "Michael"
[1] = ""
[2] = "Bulldozer"
[3] = ""
[4] = "Karlsson"

//Vasse

what happens when you try and parse "tim o'reilly" or "billy bob thorton" ?

It only applies to middlenames in singlequotes...