>>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?
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>I have attached a classlibrary called sdsstrings which may do the parsing you require.
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>I have no idea who wrote this library otherwise I would definitely give credit.
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>This is how I use it:
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>loNameParser=NEWOBJECT('utlnames','sdsstrings')
>loNameParser.setformatnames_on()
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>m.fullname=source.fullname
>m.first=loNameParser.returnfirstname(m.fullname)
>m.middlename=loNameParser.returnmiddlename(m.fullname)
>m.last=loNameParser.returnlastname(m.fullname)
>m.suffix=loNameParser.returnsuffix(m.fullname)
>
>

That looks like Steve Dingle's stuff which I emailed to Victor last night. SDS was short for Steve Dingle Solutions I think.