help with c code

[Chris Torek]

In article <21584 at netcom.UUCP> bobb at netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes:
>I'm new to new to C and am trying to write a program to cut a name field
>into a first,middle and last fields. Problem: some names don't have middle
>names or initials, and some others have more (i.e. SR.,JR.,III,...).

These are not the only problems.  For instance, consider the name
`Maria Lupita Josefa Carantinez y Pallano de la Torre-Wallace'.
Find the last name. :-)

The usual solution to the mess is to have the user mark the beginning of
the last name.  Modern name databases are now getting better at handling
things other than `First Name, Middle Initial, Last Name' sequences,
which is a good thing for those who use something else.
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