He might be doing a variable data job where the usage in one instance he needs the first name only. In another instance he needs the whole name....Just off the top of my head Darren.
On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 9:15:35 AM UTC-5, Darren Duncan wrote: > > 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? > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/2a973054-4fc5-41ff-b224-0aa23c5a664e%40googlegroups.com.
