How do you guys pick names in the Netherlands --
throw a box of poetry magnets in the air and see what
sticks to the light fixtures?
That's a bit rude, or at least culturally insensitive.
Is "MOTEL GOLDEN LEEUW" a valid name?
That's the name of a motel, surely. What's weird about that?
If all this data is just in the same field, I think my pseudocode would be:
while (<DATA>){
$name = everything up to the first space.
$rest = everything else
if ($rest starts with one of the "van"-type prepositions){
deal with it
} else {
print "can't parse this one into a name: $_"
}
}
--
($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer
pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;
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