RE: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

"I'm Rick James, b*tch!"

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Name Parsing w/RPGLE
> From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, January 11, 2006 12:37 pm
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> jmajor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I have a field that is passed to an RPGLE Service program of Name now it 
> > could be First Last Name or Last Name First Name and so on and trying to 
> > figure out how to pull the correct names out of the full name...  I have 
> > no ability to change the sender to have a First and Last Name field sent 
> > since this is an outside vendor.....  Stumped on this one...
> 
> Absent of a standard for data entered in the field, I think you are out
> of luck.
> 
> Try to parse this name and identify which is the last & which is first ...
> 
> "James Rich"
> 
> Is his real name "James Rich" or "Rich James"?
> 
> I would suggest you look into refactoring your application to have a
> separate first & last name fields.
> 
> david
> 
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