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.
James Polera [email protected]
No external dependencies. Uses Go's standard packages
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": ""
}*/
}