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Originally Posted by unboggling
So far, cases where neither method works include names such as "Melissa de la Cruz" which yields "Cruz, Melissa de la". "Melissa de la Cruz" needs to be split after the FN (at the first space from left in string) to yield "de la Cruz, Melissa" rather than the current result with each method: "Cruz, Melissa de la".
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There is no general way to solve this problem, because in many cases the choice has been made by the person. Consider A van B. I know people with names of that form, some of whom insist that their last name is van B, and the remainder who insist that their last name is B. The same is true for some friends with 'de' in their name (A de B) -- some want their last name to be de B and others just B. I know others with names A B C, where for some C is the last name and for the others it is B C.
In the end, you must look at the name and compare it to how the real-live human uses (used) it.