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Re: Changing from full name to last, first mid

by fletcher_the_dog (Friar)
on May 24, 2004 at 21:14 UTC ( [id://356049]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Changing from full name to last, first mid

From the command line you could just do:
perl -p -i -e 's/^(.*?)\s*(\w+)\s*$/$2, $1\n/' list.txt
Update This is making the assumption that the names are on different lines, if they are on the same line then you are going to have a very hard time determining where one name ends an another begins

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Re: Re: Changing from full name to last, first mid
by jillern (Initiate) on May 25, 2004 at 03:47 UTC
    The s/ code did it...I guess I need to look more at regular expressions...thank you gde
      With your help I created my first "useful" perl program...I'm so happy. I have found inter peace. gde

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