st: regular expression -split string an unknown number of times

["Rodini, Mark" <mrodini@compasslexecon.com>]

Greetings,

I have a simple question.  I have a list of strings representing names which lack any spaces and I'm trying to insert a space in the correct place or places to split out the names.
For example, I might have:

JohnPaulJones

Which I'd like to turn into

John Paul Jones


The rule is to insert a space before any upper case letter followed by a lower case.

gen teststring = regexs(1) if regexm(var,"^([A-Z][a-z]+)")

gives the first word.  I think I could do the following to get John Paul  

gen teststring = regexs(1) + " " + regexs(2) if regexm(var,"^([A-Z][a-z]+)([A-Z][a-z]+)")

The difficulty I'm having is that the number of subnames in a string is variable.  The example above has three subnames, but I might have one with two or four, etc.  I'm not sure how to program that.

Thanks for any help.
Mark


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