Paket: liblingua-en-nameparse-perl (1.38-1)

module for parsing a person's name in free text

Lingua::EN::NameParse takes as input a person or persons name in free format text such as,

 Mr AB & M/s CD MacNay-Smith
 MR J.L. D'ANGELO
 Estate Of The Late Lieutenant Colonel AB Van Der Heiden

and attempts to parse it. If successful, the name is broken down into components and useful functions can be performed such as:

 converting upper or lower case values to name case (Mr AB MacNay   )
 creating a personalised greeting or salutation     (Dear Mr MacNay )
 extracting the names individual components         (Mr,AB,MacNay   )
 determining the type of format the name is in      (Mr_A_Smith     )

Märken: Software Development: Perl Development, Bibliotek, Implemented in: Perl, Role: role::devel-lib, role::program, Purpose: Analysing

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