>I have a bunch of data that has people's name all squeezed into one field like
>Smith, John, D Jr
>
>..and I need to of course put it in 3 fields (first name, middle name, last name) - anyone got anything like that?

Steve Dingle had a name parser written in VFP to handle things like that. If you can't find it on-line let me know and I'll see if I can find the code on my backups somewhere.