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Regex to convert email to regular name

wonka1234
10 - Fireball

Hi,

 

Is there a way to use regex to change email format from:   "JOHNSMITH@GMAIL.COM" to JOHN SMITH?

 

Thanks.

 

 

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MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@wonka1234 ,

 

A better question might be what to do with:

 

SAMISMITH@gmail.com

 

Is it Sam I Smith or Sami Smit?

 

If you have a ROBUST list of last names, you could parse the names based upon the known last names and break it up that way.

 

Cheers,


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EN6924
10 - Fireball

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OllieClarke
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@EN6924 The problem with this approach is you've baked in the assumption that all first names are 4 letters long and all surnames are 5 letters long. Like @MarqueeCrew says without a list of names there is no way to robustly parse the email into first names and surnames...

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