RE: Converting names & street names

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thanks for your reply Tommy, but the main problem I am going to have is 
> with the names like O'Donnell McGuyver etc where the name contains more 
> than one upper case character.
Even worse is something  like "Herman Van der Staey".  In that case the 
last name is 3 words, and one of them isn't capitalized, but the others 
are.  I can't think of an algorithm that would understand how to properly 
capitalize all names.
The truth is, names don't follow a set pattern for capitalization. You 
have to deall with them on a case-by-case basis.  So you'd almost need a 
database of every possible name and how it's capitalized....  or at least 
a database of the ones that don't follow the rule of "first letter of 
every word."   This wouldn't be a minor undertaking.
I suggest looking for a commercial package unless a "close enough" routine 
is acceptable.