Wags,

I appreciate what you did. Your solution is helpful.

Howard

On Thursday, 10 February 2022 at 4:44:59 pm UTC-5 Howard wrote:

> Jean,
>
> Your solution does what I need. 
>
> Thanks,
> Howard
>
> On Thursday, 10 February 2022 at 8:31:38 am UTC-5 [email protected] 
> wrote:
>
>> I took the data and tried this:
>>
>> ([a-z]\.)([a-z]+)\s+\(([^\)]+)\)(\s*(and){0,1}\s*)
>>
>> Replace as
>>
>> \1\2\t\3\n
>>
>> You stated an extra column needed, so used \t (tab inserted). This did 
>> your test data in one pass. 
>>
>> Wags ;)
>> WagsWorld
>> Hebrews 4:15
>> Ph(primary) : 408-914-1341 <(408)%20914-1341>
>> Ph(secondary): 408-761-7391 <(408)%20761-7391>
>> On Feb 9, 2022, 13:42 -0800, Howard <[email protected]>, wrote:
>>
>>
>> *I have a column with data like this, where each name contains just the 
>> first initial, a period, and the last name:*
>> D.Green (59-72) and B.Valentine (12-19)
>> D.Green (69-75)
>> D.Green (55-58)
>> J.Torborg (13-25) and D.Green (46-78)
>> J.Torborg (72-90)
>> B.Harrelson (74-80) and M.Cubbage (3-4)
>> D.Johnson (20-22) and B.Harrelson (71-49)
>> D.Johnson (87-75)
>>
>> Some rows have one name and a pair of numbers in parentheses separated by 
>> a dash, and some rows have two names, each followed by a pair of numbers in 
>> parentheses separated by a dash.
>>
>> In each row, I can extract the first name (both the initial and the last 
>> name) and put a space between them using `^([A-Z]\.)([A-z,a-z]+)` and `\1 
>> \2` 
>> with all results appearing in their own column.
>>
>> *What I need help to do is this:*
>> 1. Using GREP, I need to extract the numbers in parentheses *after the 
>> first names* and put them in their own column without parentheses. 
>> 59-72
>> 69-75
>> 55-58 etc.
>>
>> 2. In those rows with a second name, using GREP I need to extract the 
>> *second 
>> names* and put them in their own column, so they look like this:
>> B. Valentine
>> D. Green
>> M. Cubbage
>> B. Harrelson 
>>
>> I also need to extract the *numbers in parentheses after the second 
>> names*, but believe that I can figure out how to do that from the answer 
>> to #1 above.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Howard
>>
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