[Zope] firstname/lastname and string manipulation

[Chris Beaumont]

David,


*Thank you*

That did it!


-Chris


>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
>  >