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how to get every first letter from a string ... ???

623513Feb 16 2008 — edited Mar 11 2009
Hi guys

I want to get every first character from my string column say:

Name
---------
Mark Thomsan
Allen John
John Trovolta Robert


I want my result like this

Name
---------
MT
AJ
JTR

and name column could be 255 long


how can i get this ???


thanks

abbas

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