gonameparts

Takes a full name and splits it into individual name parts

Programming language: Go

License: MIT License

Tags: Text Processing     Specific Formats     Blackfriday    

Latest version: v1.1

README

gonameparts

gonameparts splits a human name into individual parts. This is useful when dealing with external data sources that provide names as a single value, but you need to store the discrete parts in a database for example.

Author

James Polera [email protected]

Dependencies

No external dependencies. Uses Go's standard packages

Example

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"

    "github.com/polera/gonameparts"
)

func main() {

    // Parsing a name and printing its parts
    nameString := gonameparts.Parse("Thurston Howell III")
    fmt.Println("FirstName:", nameString.FirstName)
    fmt.Println("LastName:", nameString.LastName)
    fmt.Println("Generation:", nameString.Generation)
    // Output:
    // FirstName: Thurston
    // LastName: Howell
    // Generation: III

    // Parse a name with multiple "also known as" aliases, output JSON
    multipleAKA := gonameparts.Parse("Tony Stark a/k/a Ironman a/k/a Stark, Anthony a/k/a Anthony Edward \"Tony\" Stark")
    jsonParts, _ := json.Marshal(multipleAKA)
    fmt.Printf("%v\n", string(jsonParts))
    /* Output:
        {
        "aliases": [
            {
                "aliases": null,
                "first_name": "Ironman",
                "full_name": "Ironman",
                "generation": "",
                "last_name": "",
                "middle_name": "",
                "nickname": "",
                "provided_name": " Ironman ",
                "salutation": "",
                "suffix": ""
            },
            {
                "aliases": null,
                "first_name": "Anthony",
                "full_name": "Anthony Stark",
                "generation": "",
                "last_name": "Stark",
                "middle_name": "",
                "nickname": "",
                "provided_name": " Stark, Anthony ",
                "salutation": "",
                "suffix": ""
            },
            {
                "aliases": null,
                "first_name": "Anthony",
                "full_name": "Anthony Edward Stark",
                "generation": "",
                "last_name": "Stark",
                "middle_name": "Edward",
                "nickname": "\"Tony\"",
                "provided_name": " Anthony Edward \"Tony\" Stark",
                "salutation": "",
                "suffix": ""
            }
        ],
        "first_name": "Tony",
        "full_name": "Tony Stark",
        "generation": "",
        "last_name": "Stark",
        "middle_name": "",
        "nickname": "",
        "provided_name": "Tony Stark a/k/a Ironman a/k/a Stark, Anthony a/k/a Anthony Edward \"Tony\" Stark",
        "salutation": "",
        "suffix": ""
        }*/

}