I havent tested this, (1) _.string.split returns a list (2) _.len(list) returns # of items in a list (3) Hence <dtml-if "_.len(_.string.split(SPEAKER, ' ')) > 1"> <dtml-var "_.string.split(SPEAKER,' ')[1]"> </dtml-if> David Chris Beaumont wrote:

Hello,

I've got a very long list of names that comes from a column in an SQL table, and that column needs to be broken into a first name and a last name.. Because it is in a sense, a space-delimited field, I'm trying that route first.

Not all of the names are in the standard format..

I'm using a dtml-in to loop through the returned records from an SQL query..

Within that loop, I'm using <dtml-var "_.string.split(SPEAKER,' ')[0]"> to successfully display the 'first name' (really the first part of the string) but when trying to use

<dtml-var "_.string.split(SPEAKER,' ')[1]">

to display the part after the first space, even when I wrap that in a dtml-if I get an IndexError / list index out of range..

Does anyone have an obvious answer to what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you, Chris

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