Dear R-Helpers,

this is my first post ever to a mailing list, so please feel free to point out any missunderstandings on my side regarding the conventions of this mailing list.

My problem:

Assuming the following character vector is given:

names <- c("filia Maria", "vidua Joh Dirck Kleve (oo 02.02.1732)", "Bernardus Engelb Franciscus Linde j.u.Doktor referendarius sereniss Judex et gograven Rheinensis")

Is there a regular expression matching the first consecutive list of capitalized words in a single characterstring ("Maria", "Joh Dirck Kleve", "Bernardus Engelb Franciscus Linde")?
This expression would very reliably seperate the person names from the additional information in my historic church register transcription.

Thank you very much for your effort,

Jonas

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