Problem with RegEx

[mnb]

I've got a list of names that I want to word swap. I have last name first, no comma in between, then first name. I did it this way to make alphabetizing it easy. What I want to do now is put the first name in front.

I've tried a zillion different Regular Expressions to get:
Jones Bob
Smith Mike

to change to:
Bob Jones
Mike Smith

but the mojo evades me. I've tried:
^\(\<.*\>\)\(?\)\(\<.*\>\)\n

^\(\[:word:]\)\(?\)\(\[:word:]\)\n


to use the replacement expression of \3\2\1\n
but I can't seem to get anything to work. I did get one or two combos that would work on the first couple of names, but after that it started garbling up names.

Any suggestions would be welcome.


Thanks!

[mnb]

Find: \(^[[:word:]]+\)\([[:space:]]+\)\([[:word:]]+\)$

Repalce: \3\2\1



works like a champ, start at top of file, click replace all, bam! Time to go to sleep!

[MudGuard]

Search for

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^\([^ ]+\) \([^ ]+\)$

replace by

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\2 \1

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^

start of line

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\(\)

remember stuff inside for replacement expression

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[^ ]

search for everything but a space

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+

at least one of whatever is before...

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$

end of line