Extract first and last name from a full name string

[fxholl]

I am polling customer data from my CRM using an API. The endpoint returns a single field with the fill name of customer, and I need send to split this into first and last name.

For instance, aceptable result would beme

“full name”: “Wesley” => “first name”: “Wesley”, “last name”: “”
“full name”: “Fernando Pereira” => “first name”: “Fernando”, "last name :“Pereira”
“full name”: “Joao Pedro da Silva” => “first name”: “Joao”, "last name :“Silva”

I don’t know JS. Can someone help?

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[marcus]

Hi @fxholl,
you can use expressions to achieve your result, but a little bit of JS will be part of the solution since everything inside expressions is JS.

I created a sample workflow to illustrate.

[fxholl]

Thank you! I’ll be using that expression.

When there is only one name, say “John”, the output is “John John”. Is there a simple way to avoid that?

[MutedJam]

Hi @fxholl, I just had a look at the example and the output appears correct for me. @marcus’ example even includes the “one name only” case:

Perhaps you can provide an example of the JSON input causing trouble for you?

[fxholl]

my mistake!

[MutedJam]

Np at all, there’s always a chance we miss something