On 12 May 2008 08:20:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John) wrote: >Don't forget the "multi-word" surnames, like Van de Graaf, de la Hoya, >etc. I'm sure those folks tire from receiving form-letter >acknowledgements that start with "Dear Mr. Van:" or "Dear Mr. de:".
I'm doing case conversions of upper case names that weren't entered in a standard way. MACNAIR, JOHN JACOB JINGLE IV I can't assume the IV is a suffix with absolute certainty. And I can't assume a space in the MACNAIR name. And Mr. de la Hoya may have an "y Smith" as part of his surname. If it was entered: DELAHOYA, I can't assume it isn't like Delany. I did work for a company that had to clean up addresses - it had a dirty word file that it used - but I've read of some foreign "dirty words" that are valid places and names. We did have to keep up with world wide postal code changes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
