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Default HELP: extract certain characters from text string

Hi All,

How can I extract First letter from first name, remove the space between
first and last name and keep the last name?

For eg:
I have a list of Names in this format:
John Doe
Will Smith

and I want them like this:
jdoe
wsmith

Thanks in advance
 
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