www.ritlabs.com [Topic: Templates: Lastname cleanup] http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Templates: Lastname cleanup of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:13:24 +0300 Templates: Lastname cleanup Templates: Lastname cleanup in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Try this %IF with simple regexps:

====code==== 
Hello %IF:`%SETPATTREGEXP='\(.+?\)'%REGEXPMATCH(%TOLNAME)`!=``:`%-
%SETPATTREGEXP='([\w\-]*)\s*\(.+?\)$'%REGEXPMATCH(%TONAME)`:`%TOLNAME`,
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18 September 2008 13:13:24, K_S.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6562/message25208/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6562/message25208/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:13:24 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Templates: Lastname cleanup Templates: Lastname cleanup in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
*bump*

No one has any suggestions?
18 September 2008 03:11:28, frame.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6562/message25204/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6562/message25204/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:11:28 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Templates: Lastname cleanup Templates: Lastname cleanup in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Hello,

edit: my apologies: I've posted in the wrong forum. Can a moderator please move it? Thank you.


The emails I get from my main client uses the following sender format:
====code==== 
"John Smith (Microsoft)" <ts@microsoft.com>
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In my reply template I want to Greet the person with his or her lastname:

====code==== 
Hello %TOLNAME,
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which results in

====code==== 
Hello (Microsoft),
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instead of

====code==== 
Hello Smith,
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If I add the person to the Adressbook the problem appears again: The "company" suffix is filled in at the Lastname field, the actual Lastname is filled in the middle name. Now, I've tried to counter-react on this feature and attempted to use %TOMNAME (Middlename) if I detect brackets in the lastname. However there is no such Variable.

Am I missing something? How can I achieve my goal?
Is there a way to extract the "Smith" part from whole %TONAME?


PS: The solution to add the Person to the addressbook first, then use %ABTOMiddleName is no good: I don't have the time to add everyone I want to reply to the address-book first.

Thanks!

Marc
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