Extracting only one recipient from Msgitem.To

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Alan McGowan

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I have a script that saves emails in msg format in a specified filenaming format that includes Msgitem.to. At present if an email has been sent to multiple 'To' recipients the value of then my filename includes all the To recipients. I would like to change this to only include the first To recipient. Is there any way to do this?
 
Sorry should have said that MsgItem is a Outlook Mail Item
 
Thanks for the guidance Michael. I was hoping to use code something like that below to check whether there is more than one recipient and if so then set the Msgitemto string to something slightly different than if there was only one recipient. The code below seems to fail on the second line. How can I count the number of items in the array?

Code: 
arrMsgTo = Split(msgItem.To, ";")
If arrMsgTo.Count = 1 Then
   msgItemTo = msgItem.To
   Else
   Set msgItemTo = arrMsgTo(1)
End If
 
I also tried using Ubound and Lbound to try and calculate number of elements in array and that also failed
 
I think I've sorted it using:

Code: 
arrMsgTo = Split(msgItem.To, ";")
arrcount = UBound(arrMsgTo) - LBound(arrMsgTo) + 1
If arrcount = 1 Then
   msgItemTo = msgItem.To
   Else
   msgItemTo = LBound(arrMsgTo)
End If

I also had to set the arrMsgTo using
Code: 
Dim arrMsgTo() As String
 
Error in code above as it was not setting the msgItemTo to the value of the first recipient. The correct code is below:
Code: 
arrMsgTo = Split(msgItem.To, ";")
arrcount = UBound(arrMsgTo) - LBound(arrMsgTo) + 1
If arrcount = 1 Then
    msgItemTo = msgItem.To
    Else
    msgItemTo = arrMsgTo(0)
End If
 
Even if there's only one recipient, Split returns an array with one item, so you can always use arr(0) and don't need the If-Else thing.
[DOUBLEPOST=1447138107][/DOUBLEPOST]Even if there's only one recipient, Split returns an array with one item, so you can always use arr(0) and don't need the If-Else thing.
 
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