Simple question

[Lloyd Plantholt]

In a list of names such as:
john L jones
john jones
mary ann smith
sam smith

How can I strip off and use the last names only?
I know (dumb question)but the solution just escapes me.
Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,
Lloyd

[Lance Edmonds]

Locate the last whitespace character in each string and use it's position to extract the last name from the string.

'psuedo code - using indexed pointers with PB3.5 is much faster!
for x% = len(a$) to 1 step -1
  if mid(a$,x%,1) = chr$(32) then
    b$ = mid$(a$, x% + 1)
    exit for
  end if
next x%
' Now b$ contains the characters after tha last space character.

If we build another array containing the results obtained in b$ and then sort that array using the original array as a TAGARRAY, the result is a sorted array.


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