How to extract first letter of 2nd word? ie.: I need to get the 'S' from 'John Smith'

letsexecute · 2020-11-24T15:01:12.440Z

Title pretty much says it all

Thanks in advance

cmarchan · 2020-11-24T15:04:10.752Z

Set the second word to “:truncate to 1”

letsexecute · 2020-11-24T15:04:55.653Z

thanks for the quick reply I forgot to add these two words are part of a single string. So how could I ‘grab’ the second word?

Appkit · 2020-11-24T15:07:10.546Z

You can achieve this with regex,

Quick regex extract for first and last name Tips

Hi Guys, Just a quick tip for extracting the first and last name with a regex pattern using the :item expression. [image] Regex pattern: ([^\s]+) Demo: [extract-names] Conditions could be used if the person just enters a first name or even if they enter a middle name… Cheers

letsexecute · 2020-11-24T15:08:00.847Z

Fantastic! Thanks @cmarchan @Appkit

system · 2021-02-02T15:01:15.411Z

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