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in thread regex to return line with name but not if it has a number

What is "a name"?

Would the following be names?

d'Artagnan
O'Reilly
't Hooft
de Figuera
van der Vaart

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Re^7: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number
by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 03, 2017 at 18:58 UTC
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      Handling names in computers just sucks. Stuffing them into separate database fields sucks even more.

      afoken++. And since nobody appears to have linked to it yet, here's a great list of falsehoods programmers believe about names -- quite a few eye-openers on there.

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        Thanks for the link, AppleFritter++, I've finally bookmarked it.

        Alexander

        --
        Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)
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Re^7: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2017 at 17:56 UTC

    In my case my names are FistName LastName so your names above are correct but they would be first name last name combinations like: - Pat O'Reilly - Tony Smith - Jane de Figuera

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      But your current regular expression does not allow for a leading ' or for multiple parts of the last name, delimited by whitespace.

      Maybe you can write a short, self-contained program that shows what regular expression you are currently using, and how, and also has some input data that you want to match and some input data that you want to reject.

      As I've tried to hint with my examples, names are much more complicated than your current approach allows, so I guess the best approach is to allow almost anything as a name.

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        Thanks for your help and I get your comment re the name regex, it's ceratinly a trick one.Here's an example file and some example code:

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        code below:

        use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Handle;
use File::Basename;
use File::Find;
use File::Copy;


my $fh;
my $fh2;
my $jj;
my $file;
my $line;

print "I'm in trim\n";  
print "curent working directory is $ENV{PWD}, \n";

open ($fh, ">", "output2.txt") or die "$!"; 
print $fh "";
close $fh;

chdir "../Html3";

print "curent working directory is $ENV{PWD}, \n";
my @files2 =
   grep { -f }
   glob("*.txt");

   foreach $file (@files2) {
    
   open   (FILE, "$file");
   while($line= <FILE> ){
   
   open ($fh2, ">>", "output2.txt") or die "$!"; 
   
    if ($line =~ m/^[A-Z]'?[- a-zA-Z]+$/) {print $fh2 "$line";}
    if ($line =~ m/^[A-Z]'?[- a-zA-Z]+$/) {print "$line";}
 
    
   }
   close FILE;
  
   } 

   die;

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        Right now I'm thinking the best strategy if to match the leading hyphen and the name to extract the line but I can't figure that regex out, I just have the basic name matching on in there now. Thanks in advance for the assistance.

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      Don't forget hyphenated names: Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith. (Update: Also, a generational designation suffix like III or IV may be written as 3rd or 4th, although this seems rare today.)

      Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

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