How does your format show "Tina McBride" (anyone for some country music?) or "Tim O'Reilly" (mmmm... books...)? If they are "TinaMcBride" and "TimO'Reilly", then your algorithm will end up with "Tina Mc Bride" and "Tim O' Reilly". This is a HARD problem. Because some people are really, really picky about their names, and getting it wrong is just not a (legal) option.

I had a coworker who legally appended his nickname to his name to make a new surname. That's because he lived in Toronto, but had a very Polish name - one with sounds that us poor English-speakers couldn't distinguish. He went by this nickname at all times, and wanted things like his email (centrally controlled via Lotus Notes) to show up as just his nickname - not his full name as is the default. It took him 6 months to get that changed. Because it was his legal surname, he had that legal right to be referred to by that name.

It is that serious to some people.

In reply to Re: Insert Space between names by Tanktalus
in thread Insert Space between names by steelrose

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