PnP modern search handlbars template extract name only from the _AuthorByline field?

Question

I'm using Pnp modern search results web part to display news posts and news links from multiple sites and have created a handlebars template to mimic the rendering of the news.aspx page. I've mapped the RefinableString05 managed property to the ows_q_USER__AuthorByline crawled property, which returns and array like:
xxx@X .com | lastname, firstname | xxxx32323837314076657269736B2E636F6D i:0#.f|membership|ixxx@X .com
How do I display ONLY the "lastname, firstname" part?

Answer 1

Dear @matt howell ,

Hope you to have a good day.
Thanks for your detailed explanation, I am more than willing to help you out. However, currently the questions about Microsoft-search are not supported in Q&A forum.

You could raise a new thread in the Microsoft-search forum to get better support.

I hope I can offer you a better experience next time if I have a chance to work with you again.

Yours faithfully.
Jinwei Li

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Answer 2

Actually, this isn't a question for the PnP search forum - the search functionality works fine - it's a question about out of the box managed properties, and how to extract a value from them. So maybe someone else can chime in here. I did find mapping ows__AuthorByline to a managed property gives just the name value, but still it would be good to get an answer for how to extract values, since Msft's documentation is so woefully inadequate.