tlshaheen / human-name-parser
Takes human names of arbitrary complexity and various wacky formats and parses them out.
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- php: ^5.3.3 || ^7.0
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README
Name: HumanNameParse.php Version: 0.2 Date: 6 Sept. 2010 Author: Jason Priem jason@jasonpriem.com Website: http://jasonpriem.com/human-name-parse License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
To Install
Add "tlshaheen/human-name-parser": "0.2"
to your composer.json file and run composer update
.
Description
Takes human names of arbitrary complexity and various wacky formats like:
- J. Walter Weatherman
- de la Cruz, Ana M.
- James C. ('Jimmy') O'Dell, Jr.
and parses out the:
- leading initial (Like "J." in "J. Walter Weatherman")
- first name (or first initial in a name like 'R. Crumb')
- nicknames (like "Jimmy" in "James C. ('Jimmy') O'Dell, Jr.")
- middle names
- last name (including compound ones like "van der Sar' and "Ortega y Gasset"), and
- suffix (like 'Jr.', 'III')