https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/39.aspxNew to InfoPath? Search to see if your question has already been answered. If it has not, then ask it here or the appropriate topic forum.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/3152.aspxMon, 11 Sep 2006 15:06:26 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:3152bslaght0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/3152.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=3152Perfect! It worked great!https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/3151.aspxFri, 01 Sep 2006 17:13:16 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:3151mbenbow0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/3151.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=3151Hey,<br /><br />You can use the substring function to parse the first letter....something like concat(substring(Firstname,1,1),LastName,"@mydomain.com")<br /><br />The syntax may not be 100% correct.<br /><br />MBhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/1539.aspxFri, 01 Sep 2006 16:04:43 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:1539bslaght0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/1539.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=1539I have a form that should construct the email address in a text box using an expression.<br /><br />bascially in my expression box I have:<br /><br />concat(FirstName,LastName,"@mydomaim.com")<br /><br />However what I really want is to only get the first letter of the first name as our email addresses look like this: bslaght@mydomain.com<br /><br />How would I acomplish this?