Sort of... That's what the parse routine was for. To make matters worse, one can never assume that the names will always have a first, mi, last suffix... So with that - it could be John Jones John R. Jones John Richard Jones John Richard Jones III And worse yet John Richard De La Hoya-Jones III... Get the picture... -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Saurer, John B. Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:15 PM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Programming question Not familiar with Delphi. Can it perform a character search such as charAt( ) and find the second occurance of a space using a loop? Then select everythig from there to the end of line. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Fogarty [mailto:rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:04 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Programming question No, I'm using Borland's Delphi to do this....It structured in a while NOT(EOF) loop and then parses per line.... -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Saurer, John B. Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:51 AM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Programming question Are you using the command line 'For' command? If so, something like this may work: FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2,3-5 delims= , " %i in (myfile.txt) do @echo %i %j %k From the help files: tokens=x,y,m-n - specifies which tokens from each line are to be passed to the for body for each iteration. This will cause additional variable names to be allocated. The m-n form is a range, specifying the mth through the nth tokens. HTH John -----Original Message----- From: Costanzo, Ray [mailto:rcostanzo@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:38 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Programming question This is another one of those situations, so it sounds, that there isn't a 100% method. What if your file is: Jo Ann Smith Jose Los Santos Jo Ann is the first person's first name, Los Santos is the second person's last name. There is no way to distinguish this, unless you have the ability to think. So, while you and I can distinguish it as thinkers, the computer cannot. Is it possibly to have your source file come in a different way? Like, with comma delimiting between first and last names or some other way of distinguishing things? Ray at work -----Original Message----- From: Rick Fogarty [mailto:rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Some time ago I presented a question concerning parsing names in a data file. I've got it working perfectly except for the following: Currently, the parsing routine uses delimiters (spaces, commas etc) to determine what separates the values (such as first name, middle name etc.) So, John L. Jones Jr is pretty simple. I'm having problems with names like this.... Juan Lopez De Los Santos The Juan and Lopez are fine, however, it's reading the De Los Santos as three separate entities as its programmed to do... I'm just wondering if there might be a better way to do this so I can get De Los Santos into the last name field. **************************************************************************** ****************************** The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. Distribution, publication, or retransmission of this message is strictly prohibited. This message may be a bank to client communication and as such is priviliged and confidential. 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