tlshaheen/human-name-parser

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Takes human names of arbitrary complexity and various wacky formats and parses them out.

0.3 2016-05-11 15:22 UTC

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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')