String Functions to extract first name initial and first 5 letters of last name

Actually, now that I think about it.. even if first and last name are in the same field or variable, as long as middle name/initial are not being used, you can still do it, simply.

fullname = "Reese Witherspoon";
concat = left(ListGetAt(fullname,1," ",true),1) & left(ListGetAt(fullname,2," ",true),5);

^_^

UPDATE: Minor modification.  This works as long as the last name isn't something like "Van Dyke" or "Van Zandt".  SOOOOOOOO, check the list length (with " " as delimiter) and if it's greater than two, join positions 2 through x together, removing all spaces.

fullname = "Dick Van George Jettson"; // It didn't like D y k e.. sigh..
thisLen = listLen(fullname," "); // 4
  
if (thisLen eq 2){
   concat = left(ListGetAt(fullname,1," ",true),1) & left(ListGetAt(fullname,2," ",true),5);
}
else {
   concat = left(ListGetAt(fullname,1," ",true),1);
   lastname = "";
   for(i = 2; i lte thisLen; i=(i+1)){
      lastname &= ListGetAt(fullname,i," ",true);
      }
    concat &= left(lastname,5);
}