How do you guys pick names in the Netherlands -- 
throw a box of poetry magnets in the air and see what 
sticks to the light fixtures?
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That's a bit rude, or at least culturally insensitive.

Is "MOTEL GOLDEN LEEUW" a valid name? That's the name of a motel, surely. What's weird about that?

If all this data is just in the same field, I think my pseudocode would be:

while (<DATA>){
$name = everything up to the first space.
$rest = everything else
if ($rest starts with one of the "van"-type prepositions){
  deal with it
} else {
  print "can't parse this one into a name: $_"
}
}
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($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;
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That's a bit rude, or at least culturally insensitive.

chalk it up to cultural insensitivity i guess, humor isn't neccessarily universal.

Is "MOTEL GOLDEN LEEUW" a valid name?

That's the name of a motel, surely. What's weird about that?

no, not surely ... he said he was dealing with surnames, which is what prompted my question (it didn't seem like a name, which is why I wasn't clear how that line should be parsed)