use warnings; use strict; use Lingua::EN::NameParse qw(); my $p = Lingua::EN::NameParse->new(); while () { my ($name) = $_ =~ m{([^/]+)/}; if ($p->parse($name)) { print "Error: $name\n"; } else { my %name_comps = $p->components(); printf "%s %s, %s %s\n", @name_comps{qw(surname_1 suffix given_name_1 initials_1)}; } } __DATA__ George Washington/GOV/VA/US John Adams/GOV/MA/US John Q Adams/GOV/MA/US John Q Adams Jr/GOV/MA/US John Q Adams JR/NonEmployee/GOV/MA/US Thomas Jefferson/GOV/VA/US Martin Van Buren/GOV/VA/US