RE: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

I put in James Rich and it came back with Firstname: James, Last Name:
Rich.

I put in Rich James and it came back with Firstname: Rich, Last Name:
James.

Ah...I could write this code.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Name Parsing w/RPGLE
> From: jmajor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, January 11, 2006 1:53 pm
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx, rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Thanks for all the responses however I have no control of what the vendor 
> is passing and they stated they will not change it...
> 
> I have written other parsers for names however its always Last, First and 
> sometimes a prefix or Sr/Jr...
> 
> Its actually funny because I have had staff that look at the files we get 
> from the vendor and can not determine the first and last name......  just 
> like James Rick....!
> 
> Well thanks for the comments I have seen some webservices available to do 
> this however would love to figure out how they are doing it....
> 
> Like this service...
> 
> http://www.serviceobjects.com/products/dots_namevalidation.asp
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