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.
Then there's the problem of capitalization. There are probably as many
exceptions as there are "rules". Oh well, that's why they pay us the big
bucks, right? ;^)
Regards,
Charlie
Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store
"Everything For The Backyard Bird Enthusiast, Except For The Birds"
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On 12-14-2011 2:22 AM, Mecki Foerthmann wrote:
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 for instance - they could be first
names and not titles at all.
A colleague of mine tried a last name upper to lower case conversion
including Irish and Scottish names and out of Machine Co it made
MacHine Co.
And don't even ask what happened to last names starting with O.:-)
On 14/12/2011 01:02, Charlie Noah wrote:
Great start, but here is a longer list, although still nowhere near
complete:
Prefixes
Code Description
1st Lt First Lieutenant
Adm Admiral
Atty Attorney
Brother Brother (religious)
Capt Captain
Chief Chief
Cmdr Commander
Col Colonel
Dean University Dean (includes Assistant and Associate)
Dr Doctor (Medical or Educator)
Elder Elder (religious)
Father Father (religious)
Gen General
Gov Governor
Hon Honorable (Cabinet Officer, Commissioner, Congressman,
Judge, etc.)
Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel
Maj Major
MSgt Major/Master Sergeant
Mr Mister
Mrs Married Woman
Ms Single or Married Woman
Prince Prince
Prof Professor (includes Assistant and Associate
Rabbi Rabbi (religious)
Rev Reverend (religious)
Sister Sister (religious)
Suffixes
Code Description
II The Second
III The Third
IV The Fourth
V The Fifth
CPA Certified Public Accountant
DDS Doctor of Dental Medicine
Esq Esquire
JD Jurist Doctor
Jr Junior
Jnr Junior (British)
LLD Doctor of Laws
MD Doctor of Medicine
PhD Doctorate
Ret Retired from Armed Forces
RN Registered Nurse
RPh Registered Pharmacist
Sr Senior
Snr Senior (British)
DO Doctor of Osteopathy
Perhaps others can add more to the list.
Regards,
Charlie Noah
Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store
"Everything For The Backyard Bird Enthusiast, Except For The Birds"
Info, Forum: http://www.TinyBearMarketing.com
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On 12-13-2011 5:12 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
0044: SUFFIXES = ",JR,SR,MD,III,"
0045: S.NAME = DCOUNT(UM.NAME,' ')
0046: LAST.WORD.IN.NAME = FIELD(UM.NAME,' ',S.NAME)
0047: IF INDEX(SUFFIXES,",":LAST.WORD.IN.NAME:",",1) THEN
0048: LAST.NAME = FIELD(UM.NAME,' ',S.NAME-1)
0049: END ELSE
0050: LAST.NAME = LAST.WORD.IN.NAME
0051: END
0052: PREFIXES = ',DR,MR,MS,MISS,MRS,'
0053: FIRST.WORD.IN.NAME = FIELD(UM.NAME,' ',1)
0054: IF INDEX(PREFIXES,",":FIRST.WORD.IN.NAME:",",1) THEN
0055: FIRST.NAME = FIELD(UM.NAME,' ',2)
0056: END ELSE
0057: FIRST.NAME = FIRST.WORD.IN.NAME
0058: END
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