Why do all your own barking when you can get yourself a perfectly good dog? ;)
Lingua::EN::Parse::PersonsName does a pretty good job with this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
use strict;
use Lingua::EN::Parse::PersonsName;
while (<DATA>) {
chomp();
# Get rid of the stuff we don't need on either end of the string
my ($fullname) = $_ =~ /^\'\s+(.*?)\'$/;
my $parser = Lingua::EN::Parse::PersonsName->new($fullname);
print join(" ",$parser->fname, $parser->mi, $parser->lname);
}
__DATA__
' Smith, John'
' Thompson, Frank A'
' Smith, John A JR'
' Smith, John A III'
' Smith, John A (Johnny)'
' Robert E Smith'
' Fred E.J.K Flintstone III'
Output:
John Smith
Frank A Thompson
John A Smith
John A Smith
John A Smith
Robert E Smith
Fred E Flintstone
(Note that a warning is thrown on the first one when we try to print the middle initial - because there is none.)
Cheers,
Darren :)
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