The issue is to extract the firstname and lastNames from a string called fullname.

e.g. fullname of "michael john horatio bassett" -> firstname "michael" and lastnames "john horatio bassett"

Below is the code that got the job done in the short time I had, but its not a Smalltalk solution. if anyone would like to post Smalltalkish solutions that would be great.

Referring to the code below, I expect there is an easy way of taking off the first word from "fullname" and the remainder will be the lastName. Personally, what I would also really like to know is how to elegantly build the lastName string from the "names" array.

       "extract first name and last name from name token"
       names := fullname tokenize: ' '.
       firstName := names at: 1.
       lastName := ''.
       (names size > 1) ifTrue: [
               lastNames := names copyFrom: 2 to: (names size) -1.
               lastNames do: [ :ln |
                       lastName := lastName,ln,' ' ].
               lastName := lastName,(names at: names size) ].
       Transcript showCr: firstName,' : ',lastName.