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Hello nriddock ,<br />
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try<br />
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$lastname = substr($row_Recordset1['Em<wbr />ployee'], 0, strpos($row_Recordset1['Em<wbr />ployee']),<wbr /> ',')-1); &nbsp;<br />
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HTH<br />
<br />
!i!
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Hello nriddock ,

try

$lastname = substr($row_Recordset1['Employee'], 0, strpos($row_Recordset1['Employee']), ',')-1);  

HTH

!i!

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Parse error: parse error in /var/www/html/php/project_<wbr />status.php<wbr /> on line 135<br />

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Parse error: parse error in /var/www/html/php/project_status.php on line 135


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<br />
<br />
sorry should be<br />
<br />
$lastname = substr($row_Recordset1['Em<wbr />ployee'], 0, strpos($row_Recordset1['Em<wbr />ployee'], ',')-1); &nbsp;
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sorry should be

$lastname = substr($row_Recordset1['Employee'], 0, strpos($row_Recordset1['Employee'], ',')-1);  

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comma is gone...but now its stripping off the last letter of their name
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comma is gone...but now its stripping off the last letter of their name

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that worked!!!<br />
<br />
thanks for all your help.
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that worked!!!

thanks for all your help.

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welcome and good luck ;-)<br />
<br />
!i!
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I have a database field &quot;$row_Recordset1['Employee<wbr />']&quot; that contains lastname, firstname. I want to strip out everything after the , (including the ,) so that it only displays lastname. Im having difficulty getting preg_replace to do what i want. its still displaying the comma<br />
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$lastname = preg_replace('/^([^ ]+).*/','\1', $row_Recordset1['Employee'<wbr />]);<br />
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any suggestions? Thanks.
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I have a database field "$row_Recordset1['Employee']" that contains lastname, firstname. I want to strip out everything after the , (including the ,) so that it only displays lastname. Im having difficulty getting preg_replace to do what i want. its still displaying the comma

$lastname = preg_replace('/^([^ ]+).*/','\1', $row_Recordset1['Employee']);

any suggestions? Thanks.

simple preg_replace question - remove everything after the comma - inc. the comma

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