>Hi All,
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>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>
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>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?

First of all, before trying to understand what were the others writing about, I'd need a definition of a good name. After that, writing a parser for good names would be easy.

This is how I understood the title of the thread... pretty much the same way I found "electric pencil sharpener" meaningless, because I never saw an electric pencil, not to mention one that needed sharpening... or things like "American cancer society", which gets me to think that American cancer is so different from any other cancer that it needed a society which would take care of it.

(no, this is not an echo of Bible-thumping, it's the echo of the "precision of English language")