Need help pulling a name string

Hello I'm on Oracle 11 GR 1 material and have a strings of data like these:

SMITH, KAY C. RN, FNP
WESTON, DEBRA, L
ASH, CHRISTOPHER, J., PA - C
EYEBROWS, CATHERINE J MSN NOCD
ASH, MICHELLE
NASH, BOB MC T MD
BROWN-JONES, LARRY RN

I need to enter these:
LAST_NAME
FIRST NAME
MI
CODE (the first one)

So, if we where to watch again the data after it is pulled apart, I would like to see this:

 
LAST_NAME     FIRST_NAME     MI    CODE 
SMITH         KAY            C     RN 
WESTTON       DEBRA          L       
ASH           CHRISTOPHER    J     PA-C 
BROW          CATHERINE      J     MSN 
ASH           MICHELLE

That's what I have (this code will be executed on an external Table with 1.5mil lines):

 
select 
    substr('SMITH, KAY C. RN, FNP',1,instr('SMITH, KAY C. RN, FNP',',')-1) as LAST_NAME, 
    regexp_substr(SMITH, KAY C. RN, FNP', '[^, ]+ ') as FIRST_NAME 
from dual;

I don't know how to get the rest.

Thanks for any help

Published by: Sky13 on September 23, 2011 12:04
I added a few samples more

Hello

Look at the data and try to find some patterns. You will not be able to get everything right, but you may be able to make the most of them.
I would look for things:
There always at least 1 comma in the chain? Are you sure that what comes before the (first) comma is always a name?
When there are 2 commas, codes never come before the 2nd comma?
Codes always come after the names?
What parts are sometimes missing? How many times they lack?
Never just 1 character codes?
Some codes occur very frequently?
Is this practice to create a table of the most common codes, or even all the codes?

It will be much easier in PL/SQL.
You can write a procedure which takes 1 IN argument (the plain text) and 5 on arguemnts:
(1) first name
(2) first name
(3) other initial
(4) code
(5) a number indicating what is the probability that the results are correct. For example, 100 may indicate a very simple string, such as "Dyer, Mary. You can print the with the lowest number for some person to review manually.

Good luck!

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Hi all
I need your advice. Sorry I don't know the name of this effect below therefore the scene I need help
A man holds a flashlight illuminating a girl in the front (she is a bit away from him in an open field), now the shadow of another person walks between the torch and the girl. The shadow is being cast from left to the right end of the frame, falling on the girl, too, as it moves.
How to achieve this effect in the aftermath.
It may or may not be a question of amateur, but any help would be so useful.
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It is now much clearer. you need advice VFX before your shoot. You must have a shadow without the man, be there. I think you can go 2-way with this: shoot twice the place or go to the green screen approach. each with its own complexity and the advantages and disadvantages. I will describe the basic principles:

Approach to location

If you want to try to do on-site, you can:

1. turn your scene with the man and shadow

2. pull on the same stage without human and shadow

3 mask man with the rotoscoping and tracking

This might work if you have no movement in your scene. or if you have motion control of drilling that will exactly twice the same movement.

The green screen approach

your question - if you can touch a person out and make him a shadow on the floor - YES. It's the way I'm going to try to do - it's called a Shadow Catcher - a layer that only accepts your shadow. This might work with or without movement of the camera.

Let's say you have this guy on green screen

and you want to just its shadow on the background against

Here are the steps:

1 make the guy (layer locked) 3D and add a corresponding upstairs floor * in the actual shooting.

floor - add you a solid, it make 3D, add the effect of grid and position it accordingly with a camera of 2 knot like that of setting

2. Add a layer of light points and set the shadow, set the images captured in the shade and the soil layer to accept shadow - only and adjust the light

Now you have this:

3. check that everything is OK, now define the images captured in shadow - only

Now you have just the shadow. You can adjust it to your taste with the darkness of the shadow and the diffusion in the properties of light spots

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