RE: Parsing Names...

Here's a nice thread discussing the difficulty of "Parsing Names" with any language....

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200601/msg00328.html


Charles Wilt
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:52 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Parsing Names...

What do you mean "various formats"?

Do you have a fixed set of rules to follow?

Depending on the rules, RPGLE could handle the job nicely using the
%scan() and %subst() built in
functions.

IF the string processing in RPG isn't enough, you can consider calling
APIs to use Regular Expressions
(regex) from RPG or use a language like Java or REXX(?) that has built in
regex processing.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
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Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Turnidge
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:20 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Parsing Names...

I have just been tasked with taking Excel files that contain full names

-

in
various formats - and I am to break them into first, middle and last.

Years ago I did a lot of this in Foxpro, but I haven't done that for
longer
than I can remember. So, I'm looking for something in RPG that could do
the
job.

Other than that, I might be able to mess with something in Basic <fear

in

eyes>...

Any recommendations appreciated - Thank you in advance.

Dave Turnidge
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