Firstname Lastname to Initial Lastname

[Ixion73]

I'm Sorry if this has been asked for before.

But I just need to rename 2000 files with Initial Lastname

Someone sent me a bunch of files that currently have Firstname Lastname

[Admin]

Hi, what is the separator? Do you have some examples?

[Ixion73]

Hi Sorry the only seperator is a space

So like
John Smith
William Bragg
Judith Chalmers

And so on

[Admin]

Hi, you can swap around space using:

RegEx (1)
Enable option "Simple" in RegEx (1)
Match: %1 %2
Replace: %2 %1

However if the first name contains a space it will not work properly.

[Ixion73]

Hi

Thanks for this reply, this just swaps first and last name.

I need Joe Bloggs to turn into J Bloggs

TIA

[Luuk]

With leaving the checkmark inside for "Simple", could try something like...
%1%2 %3
%1 %3

Without the checkmark, could also try something more complicated like...
^(.)[^ ]+( [^ ]+)$
\1\2

[Ixion73]

This worked perfectly

Thanks

[therube]

%1%2 %3
%1 %3

Took me a moment to realize what you were doing there.
(And it was something I'd not thought of.)