>Nadya,
>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I have been totally swamped the last two weeks and have come up with a need that is forcing me out from under my rock... <g>
>>>
>>>Do any of you know of any really good name parsing routines 'out there' that are free or could be incorporated into another product without too much fuss?
>>>
>>>Perhaps I will need to write one myself but I'm trying to sabe a little time.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Best,
>>>
>>>DD
>>
>>I wrote such routine for my application. I have couple of supporting tables (First Name, InstitutionalKeys), etc. We have some standards for storing names (e.g. we have 25 chars for Buyer1 and 25 for Buyer2, if it's an individual, the name should be in the format FirstName I=LastName=Suffix, so it would be Frank I=Palmer=Jr. If it's an organization, we substitute some abbrev with our standard abbreviations and that's it.).
>
>Ok...
>
>Anything you can share and wouldn't mind if I swiped some ideas from?

I've sent something to you, so you can look at it. (I clicked on your envelope). Forgot to mention, that in addition to auto-parsing, I also have a whole application with GUI, so a user can manually parse names, which program was unable to parse or parsed incorrectly...