Re: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

   Jim,
    
   Yes they know of the isssue and its more like tuff sh**....
    
   As for you suggestion... THANKS great idea and I already have a service
   that I contact via a web-service to push address to verify county and will
   look into that service for Name information....  Great Idea hopefully they
   give name information off the address...!
    
   Thanks-john
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     To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     From: "Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     Date: 01/11/2006 04:22PM
     Subject: Re: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

     I understand the vendor not changing. What if the vendor doesn't know.
     This could be a data retrieval service pulling names from public records
     (perhaps pulling from many sources).
     Do you have an address with the name? Then you should be able to
     find a service to clean the list. It will not be 100% correcting but
     maybe 90%?   I get mail from advertisers and it is "mostly" right,
     but not always.
     If you know the address, or even city or state then a match against
     either mailing or telephone records would work.
     jim franz

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     Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:53 PM
     Subject: Re: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

     > 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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