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[chaboyski]

Hi!,

just wanted to ask, how can i split the full name if the full name includes multiple names and with suffix in google sheets?

example:

Full Name	First Name	Last Name	Suffix
Vincent Chavez	Vincent	Chavez
Vincent Adrian Lantin Jr	Vincent Adrian	Lantin	Jr
Andrea Mae Joy Ruallo	Andrea Mae Joy	Ruallo
Adrian Martin Nunez Sr.	Adrian Martin	Nunez	Sr.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Special-K99]

You can't. Not very well.

Suffixes will be a problem.
The only reason you've put Jr and Sr in that last column is you know it's not a name.
So you'd have to have a list of all the suffixes in the spreadsheet somewhere so you can identify if a name contains a suffix.
Suffixes could be anything... Jr, Sr, OBE, MBE, CBE, plus others I can't even think of)

This gets you close

With First Name in A1
in B1
=REPT(" ",8-(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))))&A1
(Padding out the name with extra spaces so below the 8th space indicates where the surname begins - this assumes noones is going to have 8 parts to their name - I set it to 4 originally but thought that might be a bit limiting)

in C1
=FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(E1," ",CHAR(1),8))

First Name (D1)
=TRIM(LEFT(B1,C1))

Last Name (E1)
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(B1,D1,""))

 

[chaboyski]

got it. thank you so much! i'll try this later!