Re: [PHP] First Character In A String

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:27 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote:
Robert Cummings wrote:
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:02 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote:
<?php

$initial = (is_string($forename) && strlen($forename) > 0)
? $forename[0]
: ''
;

echo trim($initial.' '.$surname);

?>

That sure is verbose Jochem...

agreed, it was done on purpose in the spirit of 'give the OP
a hint about not assuming anything about the input', I could have done this:

<?= trim(@$forename[0].' '),$surname; ?>

which is as short as I can make it :-) it also assumes that the OP
actually santized the incoming data ($forename) before doing *anything* with
it.

Oh, I didn't make mine as short as I could, I sanitized it, and didn't
cheat by using the error suppression operator ;)

echo trim( substr( (string)$forename, 0, 1 ).' '.$surname );

Cheers,
Rob.
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