Generating initials from a name is trickier than you think

Raymond Chen

Even though I’m signed in, the page claims that anonymous comments are not allowed, so I’m reduced to posting my comment here and generating a trackback. Some time ago, Robert McLaws wrote a function that generates initials from a name. Let’s set aside completely the issue of non-U.S. names; the function doesn’t even handle U.S. names correctly.

Given Cal Ripken, Jr., the function comes up with the initials JCR, which is decidedly suboptimal.

Raymond Chen

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