Re: how to add a space using a regex


"Bernard El-Hagin" <bernard.el-haginDODGE_THIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> anno4000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anno Siegel) wrote:
>
>> Jerry Preston <g-preston1@xxxxxx> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>>> What I want to do is add a space between one's name when the are
>>> like the following:
>>>
>>> $name1 = "FirstLast:";
>>>
>>> I want change $name1 = "First Last";
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> $name1 = "FirstMiddleLast:";
>>>
>>> I want change $name1 = "First Middle Last";
>>>
>>> To be able to add spaces for either "FirstLast:" or
>>> "FirstMiddleLast:" with the same regex?
>>
>> A regex doesn't change a string, but a substitution (one part of
>> which is a regex) does.
>>
>> Can you insert spaces in either "FirstLast:" or "FirstMiddleLast:"
>> with the same substitution? That would depend on how you intend
>> to recognize the parts of the nname. You have said nothing about
>> that.
>>
>> Here is a substitution that inserts a space whereever a capital
>> letter immediately follows a lower-case one:
>>
>> s/([[:lower:]])([[:upper:]])/$1 $2/g;
>>
>> but that would mis-handle names like "McBarren".
>
>
> I suggest that two letter first names are quite rare, which leads to
> an obvious adjustment of your regex. Still not perfect, but much
> closer.
>

Discounting Asian surnames, which are often two letters and precede the
proper name...

And how about all the Eds and Als in the world?

Seems like a problem doomed to failure.

Matt


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