Question

I have a blob of text that I need to split up with a list of Titles and Surnames contained therein. They are all separated by spaces, there are no carriage returns at all.

For example:

Mr Smith Mr Johnson Mrs Johnson Ms Smith
and so on and so on

I need to break these up into individual names so that I have something like the following

[0] = Mr Smith
[1] = Mr Johnson
[2] = Mrs Johnson
[3] = Ms Smith

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am using the .NET framework C# (just in case that is useful to someone).

Answer 1

I’d try

var result = Regex.Split(input, @" (?=Mr\b|Mrs\b|Ms\b)", RegexOptions.None);

if every title is indeed one of “Mr”, “Mrs”, or “Ms”. This approach allows for quite a lot of unusual surnames, but needs to know every title in advance. See it in action at ideone.com