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Automatic generation of usernames using first initial last name
I have researched the topic on CPAN a little, but I haven't had much luck with finding code that can manipulate a supplied text string and strip off the first character, while appending an entire second string into one final string.... It's basically sounding like a (chop) command that will... -
Automatic generation of usernames using first initial last name
One thing I forgot to mention, as I thought it wouldn't matter.. is that I'm trying to perform this task on a Win32 machine (Windows 2000 specifically) using Perl, and not on a Unix-based OS... I noticed that getpwnam is an unimplemented function in my version of ActivePerl, and further... -
Automatic generation of usernames using first initial last name
Hey, I'm trying to figure out an easy way to modify a user account creation script I've put together to where the user's first and last name are collected and used to generate a username for them.. (instead of allowing them to supply their own..) e.g. John Smith would be created as jsmith...
