Thread: Help with regex: surely simple, but I don't know how
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Old 10-29-2015, 11:57 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by fidvo View Post
This is just a guess, but I notice you have a couple of instances of \s* in your regex.

What happens if you change them to \s+ instead? The way you have it now, it will match to 0 or more whitespace characters, but I think you want it to match to 1 or more.

hyphenated family names have no space surrounding, so 1 or more will not split there
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