name_parse

https://github.com/bougyman/name_parse

========================================================= Name Parse Copyright (c) 2009 The Rubyists (Jayson Vaughn, Tj Vanderpoel, Michael Fellinger, Kevin Berry) Distributed under the terms of the MIT License. ========================================================== About ----- A ruby library for turning arbitrary name strings such as "Dr Helen Hunt", "Mr James T. Kirk" into a standardized object usable as parsed = NameParse::Parser.new("Dr Helen Hunt") puts "%s %s" % [parsed.first, parsed.last] Requirements ------------ - ruby (>= 1.8) Usage ----- Example of using on a list: bougyman@zero:~/git_checkouts/name_parse$ irb -r lib/name_parse irb(main):001:0> list = ["Jayson Vaughn", "Dr Helen Hunt", "Mr James T. Kirk"] => ["Jayson Vaughn", "Dr Helen Hunt", "Mr James T. Kirk"] irb(main):002:0> list.map { |n| p = NameParse[n]; [p.first, p.last] } => [["Jayson", "Vaughn"], ["Helen", "Hunt"], ["James", "Kirk"]] Support ------- Home page at http://github.com/bougyman/name_parse #rubyists on FreeNode