If you're processing a list of upper-cased names and want to turn them into "properly" cased names, why not just do that?
See also Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.
It simply does not work correctly:
#30 There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly.
X:\>perl oops.pl
'JAMES SMITH-JONES' -> 'James Smith-Jones''BOB SMITH-SMYTHE-SMITH' ->
+'Bob Smith
-Smythe-Smith''J. JONAH JAMESON' -> 'J. Jonah Jameson''BILLY BOB THORN
+TON' -> 'B
illy Bob Thornton''LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN' -> 'Ludwig Van Beethoven'
X:\>type oops.pl
my @names = (
'JAMES SMITH-JONES',
'BOB SMITH-SMYTHE-SMITH',
'J. JONAH JAMESON',
'BILLY BOB THORNTON',
'LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN',
);
;;
for my $name (@names) {
printf qq{'$name' -> };
$name =~ s{ \b ([[:upper:]]+) \b }{\u\L$1}xmsg;
print qq{'$name'};
}
X:\>
Ol' Ludwig needs a lower case 'v' in his name. Quoting Wikipedia:
The prefix van to the surname "Beethoven" reflects the Flemish origins of the family; the surname suggests that "at some stage they lived at or near a beet-farm".
Alexander
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