What is the business case for this separation? For all practical purposes
keeping the name as a single string is best. A better solution to your problem
may be changing anything that expects parts to expect a single combined name
instead, which would then work for names of any nationality. -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-02-27 1:43 p.m., '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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