Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

On Tue 30 March 2004, 2:54:02 +1000, Marck D Pearlstone wrote: MDP %IF:%ABtoGender=0:Spett.le:Egr. %- MDP %SETPATTREGEXP=(.*)( - .*)?%- MDP %REGEXPBLINDMATCH=%ABTOLASTNAME='%TOLNAME'%- MDP %SUBPATT(1) JO Don't Know why the brackets in ( - .*)? are useless, but it's running JO well. They are

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

* Robin Anson writes: On Tue 30 March 2004, 2:54:02 +1000, Marck D Pearlstone wrote: MDP %IF:%ABtoGender=0:Spett.le:Egr. %- MDP %SETPATTREGEXP=(.*)( - .*)?%- MDP %REGEXPBLINDMATCH=%ABTOLASTNAME='%TOLNAME'%- MDP %SUBPATT(1) JO Don't Know why the brackets in ( - .*)? are useless, but it's

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

On Tue 30 March 2004, 22:34:01 +1000, Carsten Thönges wrote: ...snip... It's because the pattern doesn't need to match the whole subject. This regexp should work: ^(.*?)(?: - .*)?$ Thanks Carsten. It's obvious once you explain it and, of course, it's the detail that is so important. --

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Robin, on Sun, 28 Mar 2004, at 08:46:55 [GMT +1000] (which was 0.46 here in Italy) you wrote: RA Or set Display name as: User-defined, set the first and last names RA correctly and add - work to the display name. Thanks for your reply, I appreciate! But now I have more than 1.200 entries,

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Dear Jacopo, @29-Mar-2004, 11:55 +0200 (29-Mar 10:55 UK time) Jacopo Ognibene [JO] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Robin: JO Following is the mine: JO %IF:%ABtoGender=2:Cara:Caro %ABtoFIRSTName=%TOFNAME, JO And this is the Mark's Solution for cutting the name: JO JO I got no solution...

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Marck, on Mon, 29 Mar 2004, at 12:36:07 [GMT +0100] (which was 13.36 here in Italy) you wrote: MDP I thought the ' - work' bit was on the last name. No? MDP If it's on the first name, then you can do this: MDP %IF:%ABtoGender=2:Cara:Caro %- MDP %SETPATTREGEXP=(.*)( - .*)?%- MDP

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Dear Jacopo, @29-Mar-2004, 14:00 +0200 (29-Mar 13:00 UK time) Jacopo Ognibene [JO] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: JO Marck, on Mon, 29 Mar 2004, at 12:36:07 [GMT +0100] (which was 13.36 here in JO Italy) you wrote: MDP %IF:%ABtoGender=2:Cara:Caro %- MDP %SETPATTREGEXP=(.*)( - .*)?%-

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Dear Marck, on Mon, 29 Mar 2004, at 13:17:50 [GMT +0100] (which was 14.17 here in Italy) you wrote: MDP Maybe my fault - you really want to do this: MDP %IF:%ABtoGender=0:Spett.le:Egr. %- MDP %SETPATTREGEXP=(.*)( - .*)?%- MDP %REGEXPBLINDMATCH=%ABTOLASTNAME='%TOLNAME'%- MDP %SUBPATT(1) Yes,

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Dear Jacopo, @29-Mar-2004, 18:49 +0200 (29-Mar 17:49 UK time) Jacopo Ognibene [JO] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: MDP %IF:%ABtoGender=0:Spett.le:Egr. %- MDP %SETPATTREGEXP=(.*)( - .*)?%- MDP %REGEXPBLINDMATCH=%ABTOLASTNAME='%TOLNAME'%- MDP %SUBPATT(1) JO Yes, finally I got my last

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Jacopo, on Sat, 27 Mar 2004, at 16:33:38 [GMT +0100] has wrote: JO I've setted the entries in my Address Book adding the category in the JO last name, after a - mark. JO E.g. first=Jacopo, last=Ognibene - Work It's me. Do you think there is a better way to organize the entries in the AB?

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

Dear Jacopo, @27-Mar-2004, 16:52 +0100 (27-Mar 15:52 UK time) Jacopo Ognibene [JO] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Jacopo: JO I've setted the entries in my Address Book adding the category in the JO last name, after a - mark. JO E.g. first=Jacopo, last=Ognibene - Work JO It's me. Do you

Re: Need to cut the recipient's name

On Sun 28 March 2004, 1:58:49 +1000, Marck D Pearlstone wrote: The address book is stunningly versatile. You can do as you have done and use a simple regexp to extract the name %SETREGEXP=(.*) - .*%REGEXPMATCH=%ABTOLASTNAME Or you can use the middle name field. Or groups. Or set Display