string manipulation

[mark]

i have a string eg "John Doe" i need to manipulate the string to output "JD"
this easy to do ?

cheers

mark

 

[David Young]

Using regular expressions, you should be able to strip out all
Non-Capitolized letters from your string. Unfortunately, I'm not very good
at regular expressions or I'd give you an example.

Dave

 

[mark]

Using regular expressions, you should be able to strip out all
Non-Capitolized letters from your string. Unfortunately, I'm not very good
at regular expressions or I'd give you an example.

Dave

sussed it with :-
'declare vars
Dim crap As String = "john doe"
Dim initial1, initial2 As String

'do the funky var stuff
Dim rarrar() As String = Split(crap)
initial1 = rarrar(0).Chars(0)
initial2 = rarrar(1).Chars(0)

cheers

mark

 

[Guest]

Dave,

You need to check out Expresso http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/expresso.asp

This could be greatly improved upon (I'm sure) but here is a regular
expression that matches;

(?<FirstCap>[A-Z])[a-z]*[ ](?<SecondCap>[A-Z])[a-z]*

And here is the replacement string;

${FirstCap}${SecondCap}

Good Luck