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FormatLastName ( nameLast )

FormatLastName

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Jonathan Marcus - Show more from this author Primary Key Solutions LLC https://www.pksols.com

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Let ( [ ~name = Trim ( nameLast); ~prefix = Left ( ~name ; 4 ); ~list = List ( "O'" ; "D'"; "Van "; "Von "; "De "; "Di "; "Du "; "Le "; "La "; "St." ;"Mc"; "Mac"; "Fitz";"-" ) ; ~dash = If ( PatternCount ( ~name ; "-" ) ; 1 ; 0 ); ~pos = Position ( ~name ; "-" ; 1 ; 1 ); ~length = Case ( PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 1 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 1 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 2 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 2 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 3 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 3 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 4 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 4 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 5 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 5 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 6 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 6 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 7 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 7 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 8 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 8 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 9 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 9 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 10 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 10 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 11 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 11 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 12 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 12 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 13 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 13 )); PatternCount ( ~prefix ; GetValue ( ~list ; 14 ) );Length ( GetValue ( ~list ; 14 )); "" ) ] ; If ( not ~dash; Proper ( Left ( ~name ; ~length )) & Proper ( Middle ( ~name ; ~length+1 ; Length ( ~name ) ) ) ; Proper ( Left ( ~name ; ~pos)) & Proper ( Middle ( ~name ; ~pos+1 ; Length( ~name ) ) )) ) Click to copy

Attempts to properly format a last name with internal capitalization. It doesn't work in all cases, but it it's a start.

 

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