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Re: Split confusion

by davido (Cardinal)
on Jun 03, 2020 at 22:07 UTC ( [id://11117675]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Split confusion

You can't really safely apply a set of capitalization rules to a person's name. You pretty much have to take it as they write it. And when you lose that information, you can't re-generate it. How to capitalize author names describes that de, d', van, and von may not be capitalized. So James Van Den Berghe could be spelled as I have done, or it could be James van den Berghe, or there could be some other magic combination. And some names defy all conventions.

For your problem statement I would do this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my @names = ( 'VAN DEN BERGHE', 'OSWALD', 'ANDERSON', 'LLOYD-WRIGHT', ); foreach my $name (@names) { my $altered = join('', map {ucfirst(lc($_))} split /(\s+|-)/, $nam +e); print "$name => $altered\n"; }

which produces:

VAN DEN BERGHE => Van Den Berghe OSWALD => Oswald ANDERSON => Anderson LLOYD-WRIGHT => Lloyd-Wright

But that doesn't make any attempt at dealing with the nuances discussed above.


Dave

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Re^2: Split confusion
by swampyankee (Parson) on Jun 04, 2020 at 01:58 UTC

    The list I'm case-correcting is from the rosters for several high school classes a teach; there are few enough exceptions to either split/join or regex codes that editing the remaining one or two by hand is trivial.


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