Split full name into first name and last name using Code by Zapier

@nicksimard Here you go!

Hi Troy,

Can this code be modified so that I can also get the middle name as a result?

Thanks

Uwe

Hi @piquano 

Good question.

Splitting full names can be tricky as noted.

What if there is no middle name?

Hello 

This tutorial is great !! 

I m still struggling with my case  : the line doesn’t stop there, I have more words after the lastname…

theses annoying words are always the same ones, 

is there a way to get rid of them ?

• Otherwise if you know how to convert your code into python and give it to me then I would be able to do this by myself.

thank you so much for your help already

Hi @Ak-tester 

Try asking ChatGPT by OpenAI for help writing the Python code: https://chat.openai.com/

Hey @piquano,

You can use this Python code for the first_name middle_name and last_name. It will consider the first word as the first_name, the last word as the last_name, and all the words in between, if any, will be considered as the middle_name.

For example: Olivia Grace Anderson Smith
first_name = 'Olivia'
middle_name = 'Grace Anderson'
last_name = 'Smith'

name = input_data.get('name', '').strip()
output = dict()

name_parts = name.split()
first_name = name_parts[0] if name_parts else ""
middle_name = "" if len(name_parts) <= 2 else " ".join(name_parts[1:-1])
last_name = name_parts[-1] if len(name_parts) > 1 else ""

output["first_name"] = first_name
output["middle_name"] = middle_name
output["last_name"] = last_name

print(output)