Regex help after comma

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I have a string input of “last name, first name” and i would like the string output of just the last name by using regex. Any help developing the regex help would be great

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Hi,

You can get it using the following sentence.

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(strData, "^.*(?=,)").ToString

Regards,

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I was testing it on the online regex tester and it doesn’t seem to work? if i am using the matches activity would the pattern just be “^.*(?=,)”

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@UiUser

You can split it based on the comma. It’s simplest one.

  str = “last name, first name”
  requiredStr = str.Split(","c)(0)
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Hi,

Which online tester site do you use?

You can easily check using Write Line Activity if it works good.

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match("last name, first name", "^.*(?=,)").ToString

You’ll get last name

Regards,

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It works!