On 27 Feb 2020, at 21:43, 'anotherhoward' via BBEdit Talk 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a list of names in this format:
> 
> B.J. Surhoff\surhob.01
> Bobby Bonilla\bonilbo01
> 
> 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:
> 
> B.J.         Surhoff
> Bobby     Bobby
> 
> 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?

If you don’t need to script it,

search for: (.+?) ([^ ]+?)\\.+
Replace all with \1 \2



JD

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