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Harlan Grove
 
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"Alan Beban" wrote...
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Unless I misunderstand, we already know from the OP's 3rd posting
in this thread that it is the case. He made it clear that in Ryan
Townhomes, the builder's name is Ryan and Townhomes is a suffix;
and that in KB Home the builder's name is KB Home and Home is not
a suffix.


Then it's the same situation as parsing surnames from a list of peoples from
many original nationalities but with inappropriate English capitalization
rules applied. E.g.,

Charles Der
Ruud Van Der Aalter
Nguyen Van Tieu

You come up with a rule to handle all these correctly, and you may have a
prayer handling general company names which follow even fewer rules. [This
is rhetorical. It's theoretically possible if there's a sufficiently
complete rules base, but it'd be expedient to use an approach that works
80-90% of the time and correct the rest manually.]