On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 17:42 -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "Martin Gregorie" <mar...@gregorie.org>
> > Something like this will match a sequence of two capitalised name words,
> > including hyphenated ones, and extract the name words:
> >
> > /([A-Z][-a-zA-Z]{1,20})\s([A-Z][-a-zA-Z]{1,20})/
> >
> > and should be fairly easy to extend to deal with initials and/or more
> > than one forename. Tested in Python and should also work in Perl.
> >
>
> That solves the Reginald Slovotniksky type names. But, "John Smith"? Dunno.
>
The regex I showed will return 'John' and 'Smith' so the combo can be
queried in the database, which is all I set out to try. However, I was
trying to generalise as a regex that would match two or more Capitalised
Names and return them as an array of group values but I couldn't work
out how to do that without writing a rather tedious set of ever longer
alternates. If anybody knows how to do that without resorting to
alternatives I'd be fascinated to know how you do that.
Martin
