How to Extract First Name Middle Name & Surname separately

[P_Kale]

Hi,

How to Extract First Name Middle Name & Surname separately. For e.g

I have name in one column "Madhu Anant Thorat" but i want this to be divided and want to create 3 different columns like 

Madhu in NAME column, Anant in MIDDLE NAME column, THORAT in SURNAME column.

But if Name in column "RAJ DIXIT" then RAJ in NAME column and DIXIT in SURNAME column.

how i can handle this.

@marcus_sommer 

Thanks in advance.

[theoat]

Try this in the load script :
TEST:
Load
SubField(Name,' ',1) as FirstName,
SubField(Name,' ',-1) as LastName,
if(SubField(Name,' ',2)<>SubField(Name,' ',-1),SubField(Name,' ',2)) as MiddleName
Resident NAMETABLE;

Kind regards,
Théo ATRAGIE.

[rwunderlich]

On the chance that middle and surnames are the same, i would modify MiddleName to

if(len(SubField(Name,' ',3))>0, SubField(Name,' ',2), '') as MiddleName

-Rob

[theoat · Accepted solution]

Good idea @rwunderlich !

So, to recap :

TEST:
Load
SubField(Name,' ',1) as FirstName,
SubField(Name,' ',-1) as LastName,
if(len(SubField(Name,' ',3))>0, SubField(Name,' ',2), '') as MiddleName
Resident NAMETABLE;

Kind regards,

Théo ATRAGIE.

[P_Kale]

Thanks @rwunderlich great.

Working fine.

[P_Kale]

Thanks @theoat 

 Great.. Working Fine.

[theoat]

With pleasure.

Have a nice day !

[P_Kale]

Hi @theoat  though the thread is resolved.

I have faced one problem in few names like highlighted in sr.no. 2. Here i have not get surname but in 1st case i have get the surname. So don't understand why this has happened.

Sr.no	PI_NAME	PI_FIRST_LAST_NAME
1	SURESH KUMAR CHAUDHARY	SURESH CHAUDHARY
2	TAPASH SUKLA DAS	TAPASH

Thanks in advance.

[theoat]

Hello @P_Kale , how are you ?

Can you tell me the formula used ?

Enjoy your Qlik.

Kind regards,
Théo ATRAGIE.

[N30fyte]

My guess is there are two spaces between 'SUKLA' and 'DAS'.

You should be able to resolve this for all cases by modifying the fifth line of the excellent script as follows:

if(len(SubField(Name,' ',-1))>0, SubField(Name,' ',2), '') as MiddleName

But there will still be issues if there are two spaces between the first name and the middle name.

Hope this helps!