Cato Question: Changing Desilva to DeSilva OK?

[gordyhulten]

I've got a SS named Desilva who's been with me for a while, and I'd like to change his name to DeSilva, because it's really starting to annoy me. If I change it, will it mess up my CatoBase?

Thanks,

[jcato]

I don't think it will, but the only way to do that is to edit the LastName field in the Master table in the database. Once a player is imported, his bio info doesn't get imported or updated during future imports.

I actually put some code in there to try to make the case a little better. The name is passed to a function and if it contains any of these: " ", ",", "'", ".", "-", "" it capitalizes the next letter. Or, if it starts with "Mc", then it capitalizes the next letter.

I'm open to other suggested cases, but it's an all or nothing option. If I added "De", it would also change DeSmond and DeAring and DeRosa. Might not be a good idea.

[gordyhulten]

No, this is fine. I'll make the change manually in CatoBase and in the game.

Thanks for the info!