RE: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

Parsing that can be a big pain. I did write a rather complex subroutine to
do that for a file we get from a vendor, but that is always FIRST LAST
(sometimes they have a title, a middle initial and/or a suffix). 

Contact me off-list if you want the source.

How can you tell which name is first and which is last? We used to have a
Congressman from Louisiana named Chris John. One of your examples, ELIZABETH
GLENN, well, that could, conceivably, go either way. I would talk to the
vendor who is sending you this stuff. The least he could do is put a comma
after the last name if it's in last, first format.

Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 

 

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On Behalf Of jmajor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:21 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

Good Afternoon,

Just throwing this question out because this is the first time I have come
across it...

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...

Some examples

"WOODS RICHARD P"
"LISA K. PORCHE"
"ELIZABETH GLENN"

Thanks for your time...-John

John Major
jmajor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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