That was my point. But the :-( may not have expressed it very clearly <s>


>List or probable first/last names is problematic, as many names can be both ... Dennis, Mitchell, Paul, John, Lee, Nelson, James, and the list goes on and on.
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>It gets much worse when your list includes nationalities where the family name comes first.
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>>>Does anyone have a routine to clean up names for mailing?
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>>>I have names like 'SMITH E ROBBIE & JONES REBECCA L' would like it to read 'Robbie Smith & Rebecca Jones' or something similar. does anyone have a routine written to clean up names?
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>>PROPER() would do a bit of it. The rest would require (as a starting point) a database of probable first and last names :-(