I would like to thank everyone for their thoughtful comments. Because of them, I realize that what would work best for me are Sam's with a space replacing the "\t" in the replacement pattern and John's.
On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 11:01:01 AM UTC-5, John R M. Delacour wrote: > > > > On 27 Feb 2020, at 21:43, 'anotherhoward' via BBEdit Talk < > [email protected] <javascript:>> 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 > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/9f1b9c7b-c529-4cc6-8091-0a293b338a73%40googlegroups.com.
