Date   : Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:06:49 +0900
From   : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: No wonder CompSci graduates are unemployed

Rick Murray wrote:
> On 03/11/2010 09:54, J.G.Harston wrote:
> 
>> Secretary: I'm going to be busy all afternoon because I've got
>> to go through the membership list splitting peoples' names into
>> firstname and surname.
> 
> Argh! I actually find this *painful*!
> 
> 
>> Me: Save as CSV, BBC BASIC proggy that replaces the first space
>> with a comma, reload into Excel. Done in about 30 seconds.
> 
> Ding! Exactly.

Picky possibly, but aren't you over-complicating this? Excel has a 
"text-to-columns" function, which can be told to use a space (or any 
character) as delimiter - job done in about 5 seconds.

Just thought I'd mention it :-)