[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Problem from before:





Stupid me, I know what the problem is here. I created a new capture group at the beginning to remove leading spaces, but left the replace code replacing the nonexistent capture group. Properly, it should've been this (fix in red):

Name: #initials. Template: {#stripped_series:re(([\s])?([^\s])[^\s]+(\s|$),\2)}

Or really this:

Name: #initials. Template: {#stripped_series:re([\s]?([^\s])[^\s]+(\s|$),\1)}

since I can't think why I created a capture group in the first place -- it does nothing.

And without the formatting error, it seems to work perfectly. Try this again?

EDIT: @chaley, perhaps this should be updated in the first post? This is derived from what Kovid used in his general program mode guide. I used [^\s] instead of [\w], following your lead, but added the inverse at the beginning, like Kovid's example.

EDIT by chaley: done.

Thanks, chaley!