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What is a simple workflow that I can use to trigger keyboard shortcut to copy FirstName LastName and change it to LastName, FIrstName?

 

I think that this can somehow be done with Transform Modifiers but I can't figure out how they work yet.

 

Another option is to use RegEx to Find "([\w\.\-]+)\h+([\w\.\-]+)(.*)" and replace with "$2, $1"

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10 hours ago, slyfox said:

I think that this can somehow be done with Transform Modifiers but I can't figure out how they work yet.

 

It can't. You want a Replace utility and a regex.

 

I'm not sure about the logic of your regex, though. I don't think you can possibly write a regex that handles all names correctly due to different conventions, but I think a sounder approach for English names would be to find the last space in the name and treat everything after that as the last name and everything before as the first name. Something like (.+)\s(.*).

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