Re: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

I agree... unless there is some other condition in the file somewhere... you
are SOL. (of course that is "Sorry Outta Luck ;-) ). You need difinative
rules to do this. If there was a comma after the last name (if it is first
like "WILLS, MIKE") you would have something. Looks like you don't.

On 1/11/06, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> jmajor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Absent of a standard for data entered in the field, I think you are out
> of luck.
>
> Try to parse this name and identify which is the last & which is first ...
>
> "James Rich"
>
> Is his real name "James Rich" or "Rich James"?
>
> I would suggest you look into refactoring your application to have a
> separate first & last name fields.
>
> david
>

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