Re: Name Parsing w/RPGLE

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is no comma used for Last, First M  ?

That is odd.  In these situations I have always found there to be a 
comma that can be used for a marker.

Have you discussed this with the vendor's staff?  There may be a tad 
more to the issue?

jmajor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> Just throwing this question out because this is the first time I have come 
> across it...
>
> 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...
>
> Some examples
>
> "WOODS RICHARD P"
> "LISA K. PORCHE"
> "ELIZABETH GLENN"
>
> Thanks for your time...-John
>
> John Major
> jmajor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx