names

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names

Parse names of people in Go (Golang).
Slightly fixed https://github.com/pschlump/names.git

Base On

This code is based on

parse-full-name: https://github.com/dschnelldavis/parse-full-name

Josh Fraser's PHP-Name-Parser: https://github.com/joshfraser/PHP-Name-Parser

Josh Fraser's JavaScript-Name-Parser: https://github.com/joshfraser/JavaScript-Name-Parser

Garve Hays' Java NameParser: https://github.com/gkhays/NameParser

Jason Priem's PHP HumanNameParser: https://web.archive.org/web/20150408022642/http://jasonpriem.org/human-name-parse/ and https://github.com/jasonpriem/HumanNameParser.php

Keith Beckman's PHP nameparse: http://alphahelical.com/code/misc/nameparse/

Jed Hartman's PHP normalize_name: http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2007/02/11/3813.html and http://www.kith.org/logos/things/code/name-parser-php.html

ashaffer88's JavaScript parse-name: https://github.com/weo-edu/parse-name and https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-name

Derek Gulbranson's Python nameparser: https://github.com/derek73/python-nameparser/

Discussion about how to change all upper or lowercase names to correct case: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11529213/given-upper-case-names-transform-to-proper-case-handling-ohara-mcdonald

Title lists modified from: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/262876/Titles-or-Salutation-list

Suffix lists modified from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_(name) and https://github.com/derek73/python-nameparser/blob/master/nameparser/config/suffixes.py

Prefix lists modified from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_family_name_affixes

Conjunction list copied entirely from: https://github.com/derek73/python-nameparser/blob/master/nameparser/config/conjunctions.py

Documentation

Index

• type ParsedName
  • func ParseFullName(fullName string) (parsedName ParsedName)

Types

type ParsedName

type ParsedName struct {
	Title  string
	First  string
	Middle string
	Last   string
	Nick   string
	Suffix string
}

func ParseFullName

func ParseFullName(fullName string) (parsedName ParsedName)