in reply to Parsing Names in a Text File

Look out for middle names and surnames that start with "De", etc. They are easily confused. I bet there is a CPAN module that does this, and I bet is has a list of "probable" two word surname prefixes.

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Re: Re: Parsing Names in a Text File
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 16, 2001 at 02:52 UTC
    It can be totally ambiguous, too. Ricky Van Shelten, the singer, has a FIRST NAME of "Ricky Van".
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