>>>>I have a bunch of data that has people's name all squeezed into one field like
>>>>Smith, John, D Jr
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>>>>..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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>>>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.
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>>I've tried looking for that but haven't had any luck. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of it still would ya?
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>Victor,
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>did you get my email?

Yep I got it - looks pretty close to being able to do what I need so it's helping quite a bit :)