Re: Extracting parts of names from full names

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 Fe

Re: How to make the font for the files & folders in BBEdit-projects BIGGER?

:-) After learning the solution from Donald I've chosen the max size… and it's about right for me! 8-) On 28 Feb 2020, at 17:39, Massimo Rainato wrote: You are not alone 8-) Il giorno ven 28 feb 2020 alle 16:06 Vlad Ghitulescu ha scritto: Hey! How can I make the font used for the proje

Re: Extracting parts of names from full names

> On 28 Feb 2020, at 16:00, I wrote: > > Replace all with \1 \2 …or Extract, of course! -- 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:

Re: How to make the font for the files & folders in BBEdit-projects BIGGER?

On 28 Feb 2020, at 16:23, Donald Goyette wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020, at 10:01 AM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > >> How can I make the font used for the project-files & folders AND for >> the Currently Open Documents in BBEdit-projects A LOT BIGGER? > > Preferences -> Appearance -> List display fo

Re: Extracting parts of names from full names

On 27 Feb 2020, at 21:43, 'anotherhoward' via BBEdit Talk 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 nam

Re: Extracting parts of names from full names

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 nameJust 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 sep

Re: How to make the font for the files & folders in BBEdit-projects BIGGER?

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020, at 10:01 AM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > How can I make the font used for the project-files & folders AND for > the Currently Open Documents in BBEdit-projects A LOT BIGGER? Preferences -> Appearance -> List display font size -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group

How to properly relocate BBEdit's settings/preferences back from Dropbox to where they belong?

Hey! Back in 2016 you all (that's BBEdit-Talk ;-) helped me [relocating BBEdit's settings/preferences in Dropbox][1]. Thanks again for this! :-) Then one and half year later, after a fresh install, the BBEdit-Backups got relocated in ~/Documents. Again, [you helped me with this too][2] :-).

Re: Extracting parts of names from full names

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. --