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If you need to calculate the first and last day of the current month in AMPscript, you can do it like this:

Output:

@today: 7/30/2017 8:25:22 PM
@monthOfThisMonth: 07
@yearOfThisMonth: 2017
@firstDayOfThisMonth: 7/1/2017 12:00:00 AM
@nextMonth: 8/30/2017 8:25:22 PM
@monthOfNextMonth: 08
@yearOfNextMonth: 2017
@firstDayOfNextMonth: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM
@lastDayOfThisMonth: 7/31/2017 12:00:00 AM


Reference:

• Now()
• DateAdd()
• DateParse()
• Concat()

If you only have the full name for a subscriber and you’d like to use only the first name for a greeting, you can do something like this.

Reference:

• AttributeValue()
• IndexOf()
• SubString()
• Subtract()