Do the “last names” in your dataset always consist of the final word
before the backslash? If so, you can use:
Find: `(.*) (\S+)\\.*`
Replace: `\1\t\2`
But eventually you will need to deal with names that don’t fit this
pattern and then you will be sad. For example, in the name Saúl
Rodriguez Luna, the “last name” is “Rodriguez Luna”.
You might want to read this:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
Hope this helps.
-sam
On 27 Feb 2020, at 16:43, 'anotherhoward' via BBEdit Talk wrote:
I have a list of names in this format:
Luis Gonzalez\gonzalu01
Eddie Perez\perezed02
B.J. Surhoff\surhob.01
Bobby Bonilla\bonilbo01
Keith Lockhart\lockhke01
I want to extract the last names and separately extract what comes
before
each last name
(which could be just the first name or two initials as in "B.J.") so
that I
can later organize them this way:
*First Last*
Luis Gonzalez
Eddie Eddie
B.J. Surhoff
Bobby Bobby
Keith Lockhart
I do not need the data after the slash.
How can I use GREF (REGEX) to extract the last names and separately
the
first/middle values?
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