I have a text file that contains data that is pipe delimited. Below is an example: 
4874|Kent Bottenfield|4|2|3.94|16.0|15|7|7|3|13|1|
5868|Nelson Cruz|7|0|4.00|9.0|10|5|4|1|5|0|0|0|0|0|2|
6111|Octavio Dotel|2|2|4.91|11.0|12|7|6|7|9|1|1|0|0|
6030|Scott Elarton|4|4|5.09|23.0|21|13|13|6|21|3|1|0|
6534|Wayne Franklin|7|0|6.43|7.0|11|5|5|3|4|0|0|1|0|0|

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Right now I am able to parse all of the data out of the text file. Then have it outputted to an HTML format. I want to be able to take the second column and put it in this format ex. K. Bottenfield, instead of taking the full name. Right now I can only take the full name. I want to be able to just take the first letter in the first name and put a period after it, then take the last name. Any suggestions?

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