[ic] filter last name

[Ed LaFrance]

At 11:23 AM 08/31/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I know this has to be easy but I'm having a brain cramp
>
>I want to use just the first 3 letters of the users last name and make it
>all uppercase
>
>I've tried just to set it to uppercase with
>
>[filter uc][value lname][/filter]
>
>but tht does not work just to change it to all UC
>
>Thanks for any help in advance,
>

A little Perl is needed, maybe something like this (untested):

[calc]return uc(substr q{[value lname]}, 0, 3)[/calc]

- Ed L.


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