great solutions, I have noticed that:
my ($last, $first, $middle) = ($name =~ /(\w+)\W*?(\w+)\W*(\w)?/);
doesn't handle lastnames with hypens in them, any ideas?
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[d/l] |
\w only matches letters, digits and underscores. since the hyphen is a non-word (\W), that regex interprets it as a separator, so that the second part of the last name is considered the first name.
the following code supports hyphenated first and last names:
my ($last, $first, $middle) = ($name =~ /([\w-]+)\W*?([\w-]+)\W*(\w)?/);
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* women.pm
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[d/l] |
ahhh, I see! thanks again for all your help!
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