From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-06-25T18:12:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp to split name?

Michael Fellinger wrote:
> On 6/25/07, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
>> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>> > Hi --
>> >
>> > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, darren kirby wrote:
>> >
>> >> quoth the Alex MacCaw:
>> >>> Does anyone have an example of splitting a name into first and last
>> >>> names? Or is just a case of doing string.split(' ')?
>> >>
>> >> I'd say a regexp is overkill here.
>> >>
>> >> irb(main):001:0> name = "Alex MacCaw"
>> >> => "Alex MacCaw"
>> >> irb(main):002:0> first, last = name.split
>> >> => ["Alex", "MacCaw"]
>> >> irb(main):003:0> first
>> >> => "Alex"
>> >> irb(main):004:0> last
>> >> => "MacCaw"
>> >>
>> >> Note that you will have to do more work to accommodate middle names 
>> and
>> >> titles, ie: Mr, Mrs, Dr etc...
>> >
>> > And also last names with spaces in them (von Trapp, Vaughn Williams,
>> > etc.).
>> >
>> And titles with spaces in them (The Honourable, His Excellency, etc...).
>>
> 
> And international names (though the US seems to have a broad
> assortment of them already)
> 
Can open.  Worms everywhere.  :-)

-- 
Alex