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Handling names in computers just sucks. Stuffing them into separate database fields sucks even more.

afoken++. And since nobody appears to have linked to it yet, here's a great list of falsehoods programmers believe about names -- quite a few eye-openers on there.

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Re^9: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number
by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 08, 2017 at 07:43 UTC

    Thanks for the link, AppleFritter++, I've finally bookmarked it.

    Alexander

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