Debbie Elam
delam at zyterra.com
Wed May 21 11:10:39 CDT 2008
The exceptions will eat you alive, I am well aware. Why do you think I am asking? I hope someone will graciously donate their experience with that last 10 percent so I am spared the task. ;-) Debbie Elam 214-437-6285 -----Original Message----- From: jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:58 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Parsing name field LOL, it is not easy. Simple algorithms that handle 90% of the cases are easy. That last 10% will take an order of magnitude longer to solve. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Debbie Elam wrote: > I know many of you probably have done this before, so before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I would ask if someone has code to parse a name field that may or may not have a suffix, middle initial or name. > > Thanks in advance. > > Debbie Elam > 214-437-6285 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com