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Get the first char of a lastname in php

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  1. <?php
  2. $mystring = 'Test Name';
  3. $findme   = ' ';
  4. $pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);
  5.  
  6. // The !== operator can also be used.  Using != would not work as expected
  7. // because the position of 'a' is 0. The statement (0 != false) evaluates 
  8. // to false.
  9. if ($pos !== false) {
  10.     $ln = substr($mystring, $pos, 2);
  11.     echo "Last name starts with ". trim($ln, " ")."";
  12.  
  13. } else {
  14.      echo "The string '$findme' was not found in the string '$mystring'";
  15. }
  16. ?>

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