how to get initials

[abhi7080]

i want to get the initials of 1st two word from a string
eg: abhijit prakash bagal
i want to display it as a.p bagal.
can any one give me method for it?

[Brandon@JavaForums]

you can use string buffers but you would need to put a little bit of work into it. here is where i did my tutorial when i first tried a similar thing How to use the Java StringBuffer class - YouTube

[Fubarable]

i want to get the initials of 1st two word from a string
eg: abhijit prakash bagal
i want to display it as a.p bagal.
can any one give me method for it?

That's not the purpose of this forum -- to give you the code you desire or to do your assignments for you. Rather we'd be more than happy to help you learn, and so in that vein, why not first try to solve this yourself -- it's not that hard to do, and then if your code works, great, but let us know. If it doesn't then please post your code here with code tags and with any error messages that it might cause, and let's see if we can help you out.

[abhi7080]

That's not the purpose of this forum -- to give you the code you desire or to do your assignments for you. Rather we'd be more than happy to help you learn, and so in that vein, why not first try to solve this yourself -- it's not that hard to do, and then if your code works, great, but let us know. If it doesn't then please post your code here with code tags and with any error messages that it might cause, and let's see if we can help you out.

OK
thanks for reply,
i hv tried following code to find initials but that is not working pls solve following .

 
String name = "Abhijit peakash bagal";
StringBuilder sbInitials = new StringBuilder();
String[] nameParts = name.split("\s");
for (String part : nameParts) {
    sbInitials.append(part.charAt(0));
}
String initials = sbInitials.toString();

[quad64bit]

for starters, you need to use code tags. Secondly, you didn't post your error. Thirdly, you didn't escape your \. Lastly, this program works fine for me!

[abhi7080]

i am getting error : no escape character (for "\s").

[Eranga]

Do you remember all the escape characters we are using? Is there such character like "\s"?

Did you read about split() in Java DOC?

[quad64bit]

i am getting error : no escape character (for "\s").

Did you read my post? You need to double escape that, so "\s" becomes "\\s". Java doesn't have a \s escape character but regex does. You're writing a regex. So to prevent java from thinking it is an escape character for java, you need to escape the escape character so it gets passed cleanly to regex. In other words, double escape \\s.

[abhi7080]

OK, thanks!