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On 18 November, 2000, 10:04 AM, I saw Brian's comments made on
Sat, 18 Nov 2000 08:20:23 -0500, and thought I'd add my $0.02 worth:
ACM>> Indeed it does and welcome to TBBETA. :=)
BC> Why beta? :-) You mean my client or this list? I noticed there was a
BC> Beta list, but I thought this was the plain 'ol users' list..
My mistake. That should be TBUDL. :=)
[..]
BC> Yep, done this, but I *do* I like the way TB! does the work. The thing
BC> is that I don't know how to copy the prefix it uses in %Quotes into
BC> the first line -- the (BC == "Brian Clark") part.
BC> I've tried this, with no effect:
I think I understand what you desire now. You wish to just output the
initials for the recipient name for your use. I thought you wanted to
quote using initials. Well, in your case you do need a regex macro.
This has proven to be tedious for me as well. The closest I could come
to a working regex macro is:
<one line>
%SETPATTREGEXP="(?i)\A\b(\S)\S*?\.?\b\s(\b(\S)\b\.?\s)*\b(\S)\S*\b"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%TONAME"
%SUBPATT="1"%Subpatt="3"%Subpatt="4"
<one line>
It looks complicated but I tried simpler expressions and they wouldn't
work. This expression however barfs on single names. If it is used on a
single name such as Allie, it outputs "Ao". I don't know where the
character "o" comes from. But it always follows the initial of the
single name.
It will not work with names that use a first initial such as mine:
A. Curtis Martin. My attempts to prevent this, which I thought would be
straightforward, only breaks the macro. :=/
It however works nicely on two word names and two word names with an
initial in the middle.
Maybe someone would like to attempt tweaking it to make it work across
the board. I need a break. :=)
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