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

To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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