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icodesido/Revert name surname

Created October 17, 2014 09:31
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Use a regex with placeholders to reverse name and surname
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Revert name surname
var re = /(\w+)\s(\w+)/;
var str = "John Smith";
var newstr = str.replace(re, "$2, $1");
console.log(newstr);
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