And the list goes on and on and...
That's why free form names are an absolute pain and should be avoided.
It's so much easier to have Title, First Name(s), Last Name(s) fields in
the input screen and keep them as separate attributes.
You never get it 100% right.
In your list take Dean or Prince
This thread reminded me of a blog posting I ran across a while ago. His
basic premise is that most of our assumptions about names are incorrect,
which makes coding a computer to handle them properly is really tough if
not impossible. Don't skip the comments section, there's some good stuff
That's pretty good.
A few years back, Multnomah County (Portland), Oregon, added Klingon to the
official list of interpreter services it would offer in the Mental Health
department.
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
From: bradley.sch...@usbank.com
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:57:28 -0600
Of course, this doesn't account for mulitple suffixes (ie. JR MD)
Or if someone has a multi part last name (Del Rossi)
Or if a middle initial has been thrown into the name as well.
The routine I have, splits the name into a dynamic array on a space
and goes through the array one at a time, if it
Oops,
This should have been it's considered a middle Only if there has been a non
salutation or a non single letter part first found. (ie. John L Smith, but NOT
J Smith - the J here is a firstname)
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You need to do a proper lexical analysis in order to work these out
For example
Input : Dean Foster
Lex: title word
Input: Dean Reginald McGraw
Lex: title word word
Then set rules to say a lex of title word is probable worked out as
forename surname and a lex of title word word is probably
Since I was under the impression that UniObjects is still supported, am also
interested in the response to this.
jim.sto...@esc.edu wrote in message
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Hi Dan,
Thanks for this information.
Can you tell us if Rocket
Just face it - it can't be done!
So what if Dean has 2 first names and is a plumber?
On 14/12/2011 09:57, Symeon Breen wrote:
You need to do a proper lexical analysis in order to work these out
For example
Input : Dean Foster
Lex: title word
Input: Dean Reginald McGraw
Lex: title word word
Or in our system we have entries like
Dean Suarez Smith
In actuality the customer states that Suarez Smith is a double last name, not
a middle name and last name
And Dean is their title... or no it's their first name...
Actually Doctor can be a first name as well.
It's a mess
Hi Mecki,
I absolutely agree. Of course, it's hard enough to get a trained
(hopefully) data entry person to get it right, just imagine all those
web customers filling out online order forms. The best you can hope for
is to get most right, and enough time to look over the rest for errors.
Can anyone tell me if the Universe Telnet Keep Alive setting is anywhere
else besides UniAdmin?
Using Universe 10.1.23 on Windows Server 2008 r2
Thanks,
Jason
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And how about Count Darling IV? Count is actually his first name. I
haven't heard anything about him in years.
Charlie
On 12-14-2011 7:47 AM, Wjhonson wrote:
Or in our system we have entries like
Dean Suarez Smith
In actuality the customer states that Suarez Smith is a double last name,
We use Redhat on some of our systems and do exactly what Symeon says. We
get support for the first year and then drop it once the system is stable.
In the case of Domino, the IBM support people answer Redhat questions as
well. On less critical systems Ubuntu works well. You can buy Ubuntu
On 14/12/11 14:10, charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com wrote:
We use Redhat on some of our systems and do exactly what Symeon says. We
get support for the first year and then drop it once the system is stable.
In the case of Domino, the IBM support people answer Redhat questions as
well. On less
I'm late to the Party, but wrote this draft yesterday. Some of it has been
covered, but I'll click send without further revisions.
I did not see the original post on this (just the Re:) but you can only get
somewhat close on extracting first or last names from a free-form name, not
good enough to
Count Darling IV is alive and well. He lives in Fayetteville, AR
still works with mvBase.
George
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From: Charlie Noah
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To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Extract first and last name from free-form name
And how about Count
It's in later releases of Accuterm, if you're using Accuterm.
Dave Taylor
Sysmark Information Systems, Inc.
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(O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275)
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(C) 310-561-5200
www.sysmarkinfo.com
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From: Jason Lavetan
I meant a setting for Universe itself. I know there is a setting in UniAdmin,
but is there a file some place that changes the Universe Telnet keep alive
setting?
Thanks,
Jason Lavetan
Sr. System Administrator
200 Lincoln West Drive
Mountville, PA 17554
717-285-8000 ext. 154
800-992-0592
As usual, one has to ask if the complexities involved in managing all
potentialities ensures that the simplest, and by far the most usual,
scenarios are at best difficult to implement. :-(
Bill
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Hi Jim,
As with most things, if you have specific developments (such as 64 bit) you
need, it is best to email U2AskUs along with your specific requirements on why
you need it so that we can properly consider it and start the conversation with
Engineering. As far as I can see, no one has asked
From the DOS shell trying to launch uv on a new install of Universe and
getting the message
Unable to create or attach the Printer Segment
what causes this?
The install is on my local PC and I'm running the DOS shell on my local PC as
well
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On 12/14/11, Jason Lavetan jason.lave...@cooperbooth.com wrote:
I meant a setting for Universe itself. I know there is a setting in
UniAdmin, but is there a file some place that changes the Universe Telnet
keep alive setting?
Thanks,
In today's modern world we have a luxury which is not being
utilized. Depending on your audience, most people these days
have access to cell phones, e-mail, web pages (even Facebook),
etc. Rather than trying to get algorithms or employees to guess
at which field is which, just let human beings
I'm not disagreeing Tony, but when you put up a Pay Your Bill Online type
page, for a general population, like say a county tax authority, you'll find
that some people do it, most people don't. It takes a generation to adopt
something like that, and the generation who is paying most of the
Or you could use pre-packaged software to do it for you. I've used ParseRat
http://www.guysoftware.com/parserat.htm for parsing report output and it
worked really well - although the interface is getting extremely dated.
Haven't tried it for names - but it would be way easier than reinventing the
Our problem in this area, is when you purchase a list or are given a list from
a client and all they have
is an excel file with full name. It would be nice to say, no, not good enough,
but if they are paying you
to do a mailing, it's kinda hard to turn them away!
George Gallen
Senior
I've used both. There are syntax differences, especially with the UO,NET
since it adheres to the CLR. Both libraries did what I needed. I don't
know if UO,NET is a better solution, but it looks to me like it has been
kept up-to-date better. I am interested in UOJ because of new
On 14/12/11 16:30, Bill Haskett wrote:
As usual, one has to ask if the complexities involved in managing all
potentialities ensures that the simplest, and by far the most usual,
scenarios are at best difficult to implement. :-(
Bill
The trouble is, even in the Anglo-Saxon world, what YOU think
Unfortunately, these days I'm having a hard time thinking of anything
normal in particular; Anglo-Saxon or not! :-)
Bill
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