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What is the best way to separate RM00101.CUSTNAME into First and Last?

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I am return RM00101 data from from a stored procedure, and I need to get First and Last name. I could simply split the CUSTNAME by spaces but is that the best way to do it? My concern is with names that may have more than a single space separating three or more words as a full name. Should I be concerned?

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    MG-16101311-0 26,225 on at

    If all you had to deal with was 2 word names, it would be very easy to do this. However, you have other things to consider:

    1. What if a customer name is First Initial Last

    2. First Middle Last

    3. What if a customer name is a company name

    4. First Initial[.] Last

    The permutations of how a name can be written is the troubling part, not the splitting of the name in itself

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    In case anyone else is looking for this, here is the code I wrote to get first and last from CUSTNAME.

    string[] nameParts = strCUSTNAME.Split(' ');

    string first=null, last=null;

    if(nameParts.Length > 2)

    last = nameParts[2];

    else if (nameParts.Length > 1)

    last = nameParts[1];

    //first name is always element 0

    if (nameParts.Length > 0)

    first = nameParts[0];

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