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. Any suggestions? ========================================================================== Rick Fogarty Coordinator, Technical Support and Computer Servicing Sandhills Community College 3395 Airport Rd Pinehurst, NC 28374 1(910) 695-3943 Fax 1(910)695-1823 rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.sandhills.edu <http://www.sandhills.edu/> ==========================================================================