[Zope] firstname/lastname and string manipulation

[David Hassalevris]

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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