RE: Converting names & street names

One more exception:  There is at least one name I can think of where the third

name has origins in French and German.

John McKee

Quoting Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I believe it handles the O'Donnell, but the McThis & McThat I
don't think it does at the moment LOL

I have never come upon a complete foolproof set of rules to do this right.

Our customers are restaurants so we have names like:

Paul's Pub
St John's Ev Luth-Indy
St Mary's Schl-Avilla
Pam's Café
Ducks C-Store N' More Llc
Four D's Bar & Grill
Guido's  (Yes there really is one . . .)
Bandido's--Georgetown
Camp Potawatomi---Ymca
Mckenney-Harrison Elem Sc
Bashor Home Of The Umc

And it goes on and on and on.  It's hard to believe how many have a quote in
there.

The above are exactly how mine appear after passing through my routine.  As
you can see, my routine does not handle a number of things properly, such as
"Llc", "Ymca", and the aforementioned Mcwhatever.

Note that the O' one becomes even more fun.  It looks like the letter after
the quote should be upper'ed only if the letter before the quote is upper.
But it seems like every time I come up with a rule I find some other
exception.  It's good enough currently that I don't hear complaints.

Oh, and we have a customer named:

O'sullivan's Pub

Where the one s should be uppered and the other not.  Some day if I run out
of things to do . . .

--
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.



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