Revision history for Perl CPAN module Lingua::En::NameParse
1.04 10 Dec 2000: Allowed for reversed order names where the surname appears
first, followed by a comma and the rest 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\.? (abbreivation 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 capitalisation 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_componets 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 remvove 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