in reply to Re: Can this be parsed ?
in thread Can this be parsed ?

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?

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: $_" } }

--
($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;

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Re: Re: Re: Can this be parsed ?
by hossman (Prior) on Jul 11, 2002 at 08:02 UTC
    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)