Revision history for Perl CPAN module Lingua::En::NameParse
1.27 4 Jul 2010
Changed my cygwin fstab file to use noacl option for default mount points.
Before this, the tar tool was creating directories with no read permision.
1.26 3 Jul 2010
Made line endings consistent in all files, with Unix style EOL markers
1.25 2 Jul 2010
Changed the parse method to match the documentation. It was returning a name
object and an error flag, when only the flag was required. Note that this
caused no problem if used as documented, the error value was still assigned
correctly, and the name object assigned to nothing. Thanks to Chris Prather.
Added 'use warnings' to modules
1.24 6 Jan 2008
Removed one more use to $_ in case_surname subroutine. Thanks to Ben Martin
1.23 23 Nov 2006
components method now returns undef if name cannot be parsed. Thanks to Patrick Kane.
Stopped assigning to $_ in case_surname subroutine. Thanks to Richard Walker
Created examples folder
Fixed alignment problem in report method
Removed optional title from John_Adam_Smith name type
1.22 12 Jul 2005
Added the Mr_John_Smith_&_Ms_Mary_Jones name type
Added the John_Smith_&_Mary_Jones name type
Added the John_&_Mary_Smith name type
Added the A_Smith_&_B_Jones name type
Updated distribution to current CPAN requirements
1.21 20 May 2005
Fixed bug that was creating a name cased surname of O'sullivan, now O'Sullivan
Added report method to dump all name properties and components
Added several new suffixes such as PhD
1.20 16 Feb 2004
Fixed bug that was preventing some extended titles, such as 'Major General'
from working
1.19 27 Dec 2003
Fixed bug in rules.t, thanks to Assad Arnaud
Added more valid surnames in _valid_name, thanks to Peter Schendzielorz
1.18 28 Mar 2002
Fixed bug in rules.t, thanks to Assad Arnaud
Added more reserved words
Added option to use a limited set of common titles (improves speed)
1.17 21 Mar 2002:
Added option to remove joint names from grammar (100% speed improvement!)
NOTE that by default, joint names (Mr & Mrs AB Smith) are not recognized
Applied correct capitalization to single possessive word, such as French's
Added Dalle, dela and dall' to list of Italian surname prefixes
Added San to list of Spanish surname prefixes
Detect reserved words, such as Pty Ltd in pre parse stage
1.16 24 Sep 2001:
Minor additions to README file
1.15 25 Jul 2001:
Added more complete list to surname_prefs.txt
Allowed for a surname prefix of Dell', as in Dell'Arte
Added case_all_reversed method to return name in the format of
surname, initials and/or given_names, useful for alphabetical sorting
Length of given name set to at least 2 characters for name type John_A_Smith
Names such as "Al B Jones" now parse correctly
Length of given name set to at least 2 characters for name type John_Adam_Smith
Names such as "Al Brian Jones" now parse correctly
Created a new token for middle names, at least 2 characters long and a look
ahead to exclude prefixes. Names such as "Mary Jo White" and
"John Van Der Wald" now parse correctly
1.14 19 Jul 2001:
Moved prefixes and suffixes back into grammar tree to stop invalid combinations
Removed pre parse stage
Changed case_surname to correctly capitalize suffixes in roman numeral format
Removed POD directives from README
Added J_Adam_Smith name type, thanks to Michael Cesar
1.13 25 Apr 2001:
Initialised values for all parsed name components to empty string
Fixed POD errors, thanks to Jason Gallagher
1.12 4 Apr 2001:
Allowed for titles in John_Adam_Smith name type (they were being consumed to early as given names).
Fixed some incorrect title regular expressions
Added 'dela' to list of surname Italian prefixes
1.11 24 Feb 2001:
Fixed bug in Makefile.PL, caused by omission of NameGrammar.pm
1.10 22 Feb 2001:
Allowed for apostrophes in given names, like D'Artagnan
Fixed bug for suffixes in 'John_Smith' name type
Added the John_Adam_Smith name type
Added correct capitalization of possessive proper names such as
Australia's to case_surname. Thanks to Dennis Ingram.
Precursors and suffixes now detected in pre-parsing stage
Removed precursor and suffix tree from grammar
Removed Senior and Junior as suffixes, as they are valid surnames
Extended range of suffixes in roman numeral format
Moved grammar definition to separate module
1.05 7 Jan 2001:
Updated README file
Added test of lower casing prefixes to rules.t
1.04 10 Dec 2000:
Allowed for reversed order names where the surname appears first, followed
by a comma and the remaining components of the name, such as title,
first name, initials etc.
1.03 25 Jul 2000:
Added suffixes (like Jnr) to most single names
Replaced '=head3' because they don't work with perldoc
Removed search of @INC array in BEGIN subroutine
Thanks to Douglas Wilson for these requests
1.02 19 Apr 2000:
Removed title J\.? (abbreviation for Judge) as it clashed with names such
as J A Smith, J. B. Jones etc. Thanks to Adam Huffman for spotting this bug
1.01 15 Apr 2000:
auto_clean option now removes commas from input
Improved regular expressions in 'clean' sub, thanks to Mark Summerfield
Catered for initials with both dots and spaces, such as A. B. Smith, requested by Adam Huffman
1.00 27 Dec 1999:
Added user defined file of surname capitalization over rides
Allowed for salutations where precursor is not an estate
0.40 14 Sep 1999:
Added the Mr_John_A_Smith and John_A_Smith name types
Allowed for hyphenated given names
0.30 21 Aug 1999:
Allowed for user defined length of initials
Added the Mr_John_Smith name type
Added the John_Smith name type
Surnames with the D' prefix now correctly capitalised
If a parsed name had no components, the components method returned an odd
numbered hash and case_components returned 1. Both these methods now return
undef in this situation
0.10 04 Jul 1999:
Allowed for lower casing of surname prefixes
0.04 16 May 1999:
Added test script for rule ordering
Added more titles, improved documentation
0.03 02 May 1999:
Altered output of test script to work with Test::Harness
Modified &clean to remove single leading or trailing space
0.02 01 May 1999:
Added test script, converted source to Unix format
0.01 25 Apr 1999: First Release