How I can get the first letter for full name (first name , last name)?

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How I can get the first letter for full name (First name , Last name)?

I want from the user enter your name and last name than I will get the fist letter for fist name and fist letter for last name merge together .

This is the order
1. Read User Full Name
2. Take 1st literal of First and Last name.
3. Make them Upper Case and Merge
example Stephen Ricard
Output = SR

please I want be simple.
Thank you very much

What I have tried:

I know how I can get the first letter for fist word by charAt(0) ,but I don't know the second word.

Posted 8-Nov-17 19:11pm

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Updated 2-Apr-20 0:11am

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Suvendu Shekhar Giri 9-Nov-17 1:23am

anything you have tried so far?

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Ravi Bhavnani · Answer 1 · 2017-11-08T19:28:00

Quote:
I know how I can get the first letter for fist word by charAt(0) ,but I don't know the second word.

OK, you're halfway there.

What you need to do is extract the first and last name from the full name entered by the user, then apply your charAt(0) knowledge to get the first letter of each component. Finally, convert the text to be returned to uppercase and you're done.

/ravi

Suvendu Shekhar Giri · Answer 2 · 2017-11-08T19:40:00

Solution 3

Try following-

Java

String x = "Stephen Ricard";
String[] nameparts = x.split(" ");
String initials = nameparts[0].charAt(0).toUpperCase()+nameparts[1].charAt(0).toUpperCase(); //Output: SR

Hope, it helps :)

Posted 8-Nov-17 19:40pm

Suvendu Shekhar Giri

Updated 9-Nov-17 17:54pm

v4

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Richard MacCutchan 9-Nov-17 4:32am

Why the comma in the split string?

Suvendu Shekhar Giri 9-Nov-17 4:40am

My mistake. Thought OP's input has comma separator in between first and last name.
Following led to such thought-
"How I can get the first letter for full name (First name , Last name)"

I completely overlooked the actual input while writing the answer.

Thanks Richard for pointing it out! :)

Ravi Bhavnani 9-Nov-17 8:02am

You also overlooked the fact that this won't work if the input string is "stephen ricard". :)

/ravi

Suvendu Shekhar Giri 9-Nov-17 23:51pm

Hi Ravi,
Are you pointing to the string concatenation?
I am not java developer but I tried to answer from my learning during college days. It can be totally wrong, in which case I am really sorry.

Would have been helpful if you guide the OP with correct answer/approach.

Thanks!

Ravi Bhavnani 9-Nov-17 23:55pm

I was referring to the upcasing requirement.

/ravi

Suvendu Shekhar Giri 10-Nov-17 0:01am

Yes. I realized it latter and modified the code.
Thanks a lot, Ravi!

Member 13511450 9-Nov-17 8:15am

Ravi Bhavnani
I can use this code for take the first letter for each word (first name , last name)?
import java.util.Scanner;
public class TestPrograms {

public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner t = new Scanner(System.in);
String s = t.next();
int k = s.indexOf(' ');
String first = s.substring(0 , k);
String last = s.substring(k + 1);
System.out.println(first + last);

Member 14790193 · Answer 3 · 2020-04-02T00:12:00

Solution 5

name = {"Shubam Virdi"};
String[] val = name.split(" ");
System.out.println(val[0].charAt(0));
System.out.println(val[1].charAt(0));

Posted 2-Apr-20 0:12am

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Richard Deeming 2-Apr-20 8:48am

Essentially the same as solution 3, which was posted back in 2017.

GenJerDan 2-Apr-20 9:01am

It also assumes all sorts of things which may not be true. There are many family names which are two or more separate "words", and probably a few given names. Getting two initials just became more complicated. If it really needs to be two initials, the code should take the first word and the last word in a split string list, and process those for the initials. (This will also work just fine for the simple case of two "normal" names, of course.)

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