Dividing one text field into two

[cjbright]

I have a field called "Name" which contains, as you might imagine, names. It unfortunately holds both first and last names, all of varying character lengths and separated by a space. I am trying to write a script that will separate them into two fields, "Firstname" and "Lastname", and remove the space. I anticipate using the "Set Field" script step but don't know how to go about writing the calculation. Does anyone have some advise on this?

[markpro]

Create a field called "First Name". Find all records, and use the Replace command to replace with calculation, the calculation being:

Leftwords(Name,1)

The same will be done for "Last Name". Replace, the calculation being:

Rightwords(Name,1)

[BobWeaver]

Beware of situations where the name field has more than a single first name and single last name.

Eg:

Ludwig Von Beethoven

George W. Bush

Henry Ford II

etc.

Create a calculated field called NameWordCount and set it equal to

WordCount(Name). Then do a search for NameWordCount>2. This will give you a found set of problem records that you will have to handle differently.