Re: Parsing Names...

["Francis Lapeyre" <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

I do have a routine for that (it was in the same program). I'll send
it to you privately. You may need to tweak a few things, which I'll
explain when I send the source.


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:43 PM, David Turnidge <daveturnidge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Francis,
>
> Your routine was GREAT!! I have nearly completed the task, but the LAST FILE
> to be converted is 90+% upper case. Now I looking to find if anyone has
> created a routine to lower case names with smarts about "McDonald" type of
> situations...
>
> Any recommendations appreciated,
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Francis Lapeyre <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > David,
> >
> > I have a routine I used for a vendor that supplied names as one string
> > (but
> > our customer file had title, first name, initial, last name, and
> > suffix). It's not a subprocedure or anything, but you can get the drift of
> > it. Send me an e-mail off-list if you are interested.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:20 PM, David Turnidge <daveturnidge@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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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