in reply to changing 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

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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
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