How to change the order of a name? Topic is solved

[magicinmath]

The idea is to change a name that is: smith, john to: john smith

I found this page and tried this:
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/StringSplit.htm

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	inputname = smith, john

	StringSplit, outputname, inputname, ","

	Send % outputname[2]
	Send % outputname[1]

I've read this but don't see any options that do this specifically.
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Sort.htm

Please enlighten me.

Thank you.

[kon]

You were fairly close to getting something that works, but you were mixing the two types of StringSplit / StrSplit.

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inputname = smith, john

StringSplit, outputname, inputname, `,
MsgBox, % outputname2
MsgBox, % outputname1

outputname := StrSplit(inputname, ",", " ")
MsgBox, % outputname[2]
MsgBox, % outputname[1]

Hope this helps

Edit: It's also possible to do this with InStr and SubStr together. Find the position of the comma with InStr. Then get everything before the comma with SubStr. And use SubStr again to get everything after the comma.

[magicinmath]

Thanks for that.