Re^2: Splitting/joining on different characters

Names can be very tricky (as in impossibly so) to parse to everyone's satisfaction with a clean set of rules.

A few examples: Simon Conway Morris: "Conway Morris" is his surname.
Ludwig van Beethoven: the "van" is not capitalized (but, course, the Van in Van Morrison is). Similarly, the "da" in da Vinci is not capitalized.

Of course, the big company you work for doesn't care, until the CEO (with a name like Gerard 't Hooft) gets all annoyed that his name keeps getting turned into Gerard Thooft.

Added some quotes around Conway Morris and corrected some spelling (or at least miscorrected it in a better looking way )

emc

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Re^3: Splitting/joining on different characters by SirBones (Friar) on May 25, 2006 at 19:36 UTC
Well, fortunately my CEO isn't likely to be on this list (it's a list of coders who have access to a group of servers), but you've got me thinking. Perhaps I should just punt with `$name = uc($name);` [download] That will annoy everyone, although not equally. ;-) "This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: Fearless and inventive." --J.T. Hutt	[reply] [d/l]