By any chance has the Name Parser been ported to C#?

Sorry to ask but I can't find anything close to what this does and I need it for .Net.

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Jim

//beginning
var= aNames = ['Gabriel Ba','John Adams','Kieth Richards','Prince','John Adams McKensie'];
//result target
var= aNames = ['John Adams','Gabriel Ba','John Adams McKensie','Prince','Kieth Richards'];

Nice! Thanks for sharing. One thing I've realized is that proper parsing varies a lot on the context of where the names came from and how they are being used. For example, in my use-case, anything in parenthesis should be ignored — in yours, it's a nickname. I guess, ideally we should write a class where people can change that behavior w/ a single variable to customize it for their own purposes. Let me know if you're interested. Perhaps we could combine forces to see what we could come up with.

I like your idea of matching all middle names as part of the first name; that way you never miss names like 'Billie Jo'. However, I'd argue that this is less of a problem than always treating middle names as parts of first names, since it's far more common to have a single-word first name. My lib is at GitHub, and of course it's open, so take or fork anything you like.

Glad you found this useful and good catch on the parentheses issue. Perhaps you can merge in your code for handling last name, first name? That's definitely a common use-case that I missed. I've set up Google Code and given you commit access at http://code.google.com/p/php-name-parser/.

In my case I'm trying to canonicalize display names from email address headers. One common case is that the name will appear as "Warden, Pete" – I try to detect and flip those, but I'm guessing that's not an issue for your data set? Also there's sometimes multiple words inside the parentheses, eg "Pete Warden (Mailana Inc)", but from inspection it looks like you're only catching the first word with your parentheses check?

I'd love to see this on Google Code, there's some other functionality I'm working on that might fit here, like gender guessing from first names:
http://search.cpan.org/~edaly/Text-GenderFromName…