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From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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Subject: Autocreate script
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	I'm currently working on the autocreate script...looks good so
far. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to convert strings.

Let's say $string is "SomeLongUserName"
I want to convert that to "SomeLong"

so it would be a valid username.

Any ideas?


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