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Just split the full name on the space char and take the last value as the last name. Oh wait, some people have multiple last names.

Split on the space and take everything after the first space as the last name. Oh wait, some people have multiple first names.

Merging names is a one-way door, you can't break them apart programmatically. Knowing this, I put a lot of thought into whether it was worth it to merge them.




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