Names can be very tricky (as in impossibly so) to parse to everyone's satisfaction with a clean set of rules.

A few examples: Simon Conway Morris: "Conway Morris" is his surname.
Ludwig van Beethoven: the "van" is not capitalized (but, course, the Van in Van Morrison is). Similarly, the "da" in da Vinci is not capitalized.

Of course, the big company you work for doesn't care, until the CEO (with a name like Gerard 't Hooft) gets all annoyed that his name keeps getting turned into Gerard Thooft.

Added some quotes around Conway Morris and corrected some spelling (or at least miscorrected it in a better looking way )

emc

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—G. Steele

In reply to Re^2: Splitting/joining on different characters by swampyankee
in thread Splitting/joining on different characters by SirBones

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