Name

name — transform "Last, First" name format to "First Last"

DESCRIPTION

The filter transforms "Last, First" input to "First Last". Most of the time, of course, this is used with people's names.

EXAMPLES

Example: Filter example

[filter name]Doe, John[/filter]

          

Example: Filter example for name and namecase correction

[filter op="name namecase"]DOE, John[/filter]

          

NOTES

AVAILABILITY

name is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/Filter/name.filter
Lines: 20


# Copyright 2002-2007 Interchange Development Group and others
# Copyright 1996-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.  See the LICENSE file for details.
# 
# $Id: name.filter,v 1.4 2007-03-30 23:40:45 pajamian Exp $

CodeDef name Filter
CodeDef name Description Last, First to First Last
CodeDef name Routine <<EOR
sub {
my $val = shift;
return $val unless $val =~ /,/;
my($last, $first) = split /\s*,\s*/, $val, 2;
return "$first $last";
}
EOR

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

SEE ALSO

namecase(7ic)

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