Can I get just a simple computer name (without the domain name) from a fully qualified name (can be with or without a domain name)? Is it possible for a computer name to have a dot (.) sign in it?
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Can I get just a simple computer name (without the domain name) from a fully qualified name (can be with or without a domain name)? Is it possible for a computer name to have a dot (.) sign in it?
No hostnames cannot contain a dot (reference Wikipedia and RFC 952 (see "ASSUMPTIONS") and RFC 1123). It is the delimiter between the hostname and the domainname. So you can simply do
(With proper error checking of course, for the case that "fullName" is not actually a fullname).