Hello Jeff,
Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 3:24:57 PM, you wrote:
JO> If I have a list like this:
JO> Firstname1 LastName1
JO> Firstname2 Lastname2
JO> etc.
JO> I can split the names by \n to put them into
JO> an array which will then be output into an <option>
JO> list for a form. But how do I reverse the names
JO> so that the last name is first? Also, how do I
JO> handle people with three names? Thanks.
<?
function swap (&$name)
{
$tmp_name = trim($name);
$pos = strrpos($tmp_name, " ");
$first_name = substr($tmp_name, 0, $pos);
$surname = substr($tmp_name, $pos);
$name = "$surname, $first_name";
}
$raw_names = "richard davey
susannah davey
jeff oien
willy three names
jack van-der-meet";
$names = explode("\n", $raw_names);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($names);
array_walk($names, 'swap');
print_r($names);
echo "</pre>";
?>
The echo and print_r lines are to show you what it has done.
The $raw_names should be your list of names.
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Best regards,
Richard Davey
http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html
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