get part of string before the second upper case character

[jasonc]

$string = "JoeBloggs";

or $string = "MarySmith";

 

how do i get the first part of the string before the second upper case letter?

 

Mary or Joe

 

 

thanks

 

PHP5 server

[JasonLewis]

Well, I suppose you could do it like this:

$string = "JoeBloggs";

$split = preg_match_all("#[A-Z]{1}[a-z]+#",$string,$match);
print_r($match);

[PHPTOM]

<?PHP
$string = "JoeBloggs";
$spliter = split(",",substr(preg_replace("/([A-Z])/",',\\1',$string),1));
$forename = $spliter[0];
$surname = $spliter[1];
?>

 

This can also be used if $string = "JoeBloggsWithMoreCaps";

[jasonc]

thanks for that, i really appreciate it.