changing full name to last, first mid

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Re: changing full name to last, first mid by fletcher_the_dog (Friar) on May 24, 2004 at 21:12 UTC
From the command line you could just do: `perl -p -i -e 's/^(.?)\s(\w+)\s*$/$2, $1\n/' list.txt` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: changing full name to last, first mid by jillern (Initiate) on May 24, 2004 at 22:10 UTC
Thank you thank you thank you...you have saved me much student input time....gde	[reply]