package Lingua::EN::NameCase ; # Documented at the __END__. # $Id: NameCase.pm,v 1.2 2000/11/22 19:03:48 mark Exp mark $ require 5.004 ; use strict ; use locale ; use Carp ; use vars qw( $VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK ) ; $VERSION = '1.11' ; use Exporter() ; @ISA = qw( Exporter ) ; @EXPORT = qw( nc ) ; @EXPORT_OK = qw( NameCase nc ) ; ############################# sub NameCase { croak "Usage: \$SCALAR|\@ARRAY = NameCase [\\]\$SCALAR|\@ARRAY" if ref $_[0] and ( ref $_[0] ne 'ARRAY' and ref $_[0] ne 'SCALAR' ) ; local( $_ ) ; if( wantarray and ( scalar @_ > 1 or ref $_[0] eq 'ARRAY' ) ) { # We have received an array or array reference in a list context # so we will return an array. map { nc( $_ ) } @{ ref( $_[0] ) ? $_[0] : \@_ } ; } elsif( ref $_[0] eq 'ARRAY' ) { # We have received an array reference in a scalar or void context # so we will work on the array in-place. foreach ( @{ $_[0] } ) { $_ = nc( $_ ) ; } } elsif( ref $_[0] eq 'SCALAR' ) { # We don't work on scalar references in-place; we take the value # and return a name-cased copy. nc( ${ $_[0] } ) ; } elsif( scalar @_ == 1 and not ref $_[0] ) { # We've received a scalar: we return a name-cased copy. nc( $_[0] ) ; } else { croak "NameCase only accepts a single scalar, array or array ref" ; } } ############################# sub nc { croak "Usage: nc [[\\]\$SCALAR]" if scalar @_ > 1 or ( ref $_[0] and ref $_[0] ne 'SCALAR' ) ; local( $_ ) = @_ if @_ ; $_ = ${$_} if ref( $_ ) ; # Replace reference with value. $_ = lc ; # Lowercase the lot. s{ \b (\w) }{\u$1}gox ; # Uppercase first letter of every word. s{ (\'\w) \b }{\L$1}gox ; # Lowercase 's. # Name case Mcs and Macs - taken straight from NameParse.pm incl. comments. # Exclude names with 1-2 letters after prefix like Mack, Macky, Mace # Exclude names ending in a,c,i,o, or j are typically Polish or Italian if ( /\bMac[A-Za-z]{2,}[^aciozj]\b/o or /\bMc/o ) { s/\b(Ma?c)([A-Za-z]+)/$1\u$2/go ; # Now correct for "Mac" exceptions s/\bMacHin/Machin/go ; s/\bMacHlin/Machlin/go ; s/\bMacHar/Machar/go ; s/\bMacKle/Mackle/go ; s/\bMacKlin/Macklin/go ; s/\bMacKie/Mackie/go ; s/\bMacQuarie/Macquarie/go ; s/\bMacHado/Machado/go ; # Portuguese s/\bMacEvicius/Macevicius/go ; # Lithuanian s/\bMacIulis/Maciulis/go ; s/\bMacIas/Macias/go ; } s/Macmurdo/MacMurdo/go ; # Fixes for "son (daughter) of" etc. in various languages. s{ \b ([AE])l \b }{\l$1l}gox ; # al and el Arabic/Greek. s{ \b Ap \b }{ap}gox ; # ap Welsh. s{ \b Dell([ae])\b }{dell$1}gox ; # della delle Italian. s{ \b D([aeiu]) \b }{d$1}gox ; # da, de, di Italian; du French. s{ \b De([lr]) \b }{de$1}gox ; # del Italian; der Dutch/Flemish. s{ \b L([aeo]) \b }{l$1}gox ; # lo Italian; la, le French. s{ \b V([ao])n \b }{v$1n}gox ; # van German; von Dutch/Flemish. # Fixes for roman numeral names, e.g. Henry VIII, up to 89, LXXXIX s{ \b ( (?: [Xx]{1,3} | [Xx][Ll] | [Ll][Xx]{0,3} )? (?: [Ii]{1,3} | [Ii][VvXx] | [Vv][Ii]{0,3} )? ) \b }{\U$1}gox ; $_ ; } 1 ; __END__ =head1 NAME NameCase - Perl module to fix the case of people's names. =head1 SYNOPSIS # Working with scalars; complementing lc and uc. use Lingua::EN::NameCase qw( nc ) ; $FixedCasedName = nc( $OriginalName ) ; $FixedCasedName = nc( \$OriginalName ) ; # Working with arrays or array references. use Lingua::EN::NameCase 'NameCase' ; $FixedCasedName = NameCase( $OriginalName ) ; @FixedCasedNames = NameCase( @OriginalNames ) ; $FixedCasedName = NameCase( \$OriginalName ) ; @FixedCasedNames = NameCase( \@OriginalNames ) ; NameCase( \@OriginalNames ) ; # In-place. # NameCase will not change a scalar in-place, i.e. NameCase( \$OriginalName ) ; # WRONG: null operation. =head1 DESCRIPTION Forenames and surnames are often stored either wholly in UPPERCASE or wholly in lowercase. This module allows you to convert names into the correct case where possible. Although forenames and surnames are normally stored separately if they do appear in a single string, whitespace separated, NameCase and nc deal correctly with them. NameCase currently correctly name cases names which include any of the following: Mc, Mac, al, el, ap, da, de, delle, della, di, du, del, der, la, le, lo, van and von. It correctly deals with names which contain apostrophies and hyphens too. =head2 EXAMPLE FIXES Original Name Case -------- --------- KEITH Keith LEIGH-WILLIAMS Leigh-Williams MCCARTHY McCarthy O'CALLAGHAN O'Callaghan ST. JOHN St. John plus "son (daughter) of" etc. in various languages, e.g.: VON STREIT von Streit VAN DYKE van Dyke AP LLWYD DAFYDD ap Llwyd Dafydd etc. plus names with roman numerals (up to 89, LXXXIX), e.g.: henry viii Henry VIII louis xiv Louis XIV =head1 BUGS The module covers the rules that I know of. There are probably a lot more rules, exceptions etc. for "Western"-style languages which could be incorporated. We don't fix "ben" - for hebrew names this means son of, but it can mean "Ben" as a name in itself or as a form of "Benjamin". However we do fix "al" - for arabic names this means son of, even though it can also mean "Al" as a name in itself. There are probably lots of exceptions and problems - but as a general data 'cleaner' it may be all you need. Use Kim Ryan's NameParse.pm for any really sophisticated name parsing. =head1 CHANGES 1998/04/20 First release. 1998/06/25 First public release. 1999/01/18 Second public release. 1999/02/08 Added Mac with Mack as an exception, thanks to Kim Ryan for this. 1999/05/05 Copied Kim Ryan's Mc/Mac solution from his NameParse.pm and replaced my Mc/Mac solution with his. 1999/05/08 nc can now use $_ as its default argument e.g. "$ans = nc ;" and "nc ;", both of which set $_, with the first one setting $ans also. 1999/07/30 Modified for CPAN and automatic testing. Stopped using $_ as the default argument. 1999/08/08 Changed licence to LGPL. 1999/09/07 Minor change to packaging for CPAN. 1999/09/09 Renamed package Lingua::EN::NameCase.pm as per John Porter's (CPAN) suggestion. 1999/11/13 Added code for names with roman numerals, thanks to David Lynn Rice for this suggestion. (If you need to go beyond LXXXIX let me know.) 2000/11/22 Added use locale at the suggestion of Eric Kolve. It should have been there in the first place. =head1 AUTHOR Mark Summerfield. I can be contacted as - please include the word 'namecase' in the subject line. Thanks to Kim Ryan for his Mc/Mac solution. =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) Mark Summerfield 1998-2000. All Rights Reserved. This module may be used/distributed/modified under the LGPL. =cut