Splitting a person's name into forename and surname

Question

ok so basically I am asking the question of their name I want this to be one input rather than Forename and Surname.

Now is there any way of splitting this name? and

Answer 1

Since there are so many different variation's of how people write their names, but here's how a basic way to get the first/lastname via regex.

import re
p = re.compile(r'^(\s+)?(Mr(\.)?|Mrs(\.)?)?(?P.+)(\s+)(?P.+)$', re.IGNORECASE)
m = p.match('Mr. Dingo Bat')
if(m != None):
  first_name = m.group('FIRST_NAME')
  last_name = m.group('LAST_NAME')