CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Creates a sequence of initials based on an input name string. The UDF essentially takes the first characters of each word in the input string, capitalizes them and puts them together.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfset name="John Alexander Smith"><br>
<cfoutput>Initials for #name# are #getNameInitials(name)#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Extracts the initials of a name from long string.
 * 
 * @param str      String to parse. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Anonymous (anonymous@gmail.com) 
 * @version 1, October 4, 2007 
 */
function getNameInitials(str) {
    var newstr = "";
    var word = "";
    var i = 1;
    var strlen = listlen(str," ");
    for(i=1;i lte strlen;i=i+1) {
        word = ListGetAt(str,i," ");
        newstr = newstr & UCase(Left(word,1));
    }
    return newstr;
}