
Revision history for Perl CPAN module Lingua::En::NameParse


1.13 25 Apr 2001:

    Initialised values for all parsed name components to empty string
    Fixed POD errors, thanks to Jason Gallagher

1.12  4 Apr 2001:
    Allowed for titles in John_Adam_Smith name type (they were  being consumed to early as given names).
    Fixed some incorrect title regular expressions

1.11 24 Feb 2001:
    Fixed bug in Makefile.PL, caused by omission of NameGrammar.pm

1.10 22 Feb 2001:
    Allowed for apostrophes in given names, like D'Artagnan
    Fixed bug for suffixes in 'John_Smith' name type
    Added the John_Adam_Smith name type
    Thanks to 560@altavista.net for above bug reports and suggestions

    Added correct capitalization of possessive proper names such as 
      Australia's to case_surname. Thanks to Dennis Ingram.

    Precursors and suffixes now detected in pre-parsing stage
    Removed precursor and suffix tree from grammar
    Removed Senior and Junior as suffixes, as they are valid surnames
    Extended range of suffixes in roman numeral format
    Moved grammar definition to separate module

1.05  7 Jan 2001:
    Updated README file
    Added test of lower casing prefixes to rules.t

1.04 10 Dec 2000:
    Allowed for reversed order names where the surname appears first, followed
      by a comma and the remaining components 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\.? (abbreviation 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 capitalization 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_components 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 remove 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



                  
                  
                  


