Name parser
This project is built to fulfil a technical challenge, rather than to be an independent project in of itself.
The challenge is to parse an arbitrary list of strings containing one or many people's incomplete names, into a normalised schema containing:
- Title (required)
- Lastname (required)
- Initial (optional)
- Forename (optional)
The sample data and schema assumes all names are provided and can be normalised into the Western name order / format.
This project, parser, and schema is unsuitable for parsing international name formats.
Parsing CSV files
You can use this project via command-line to parse arbitrary CSVs via:
php bin/console parse-csv <filename>This command supports multiple output formats, controllable via the --format option:
- "text" (default): Returns the results in a text-based table
- "json": Writes the results as a JSON array, with snake-cased property names
Running tests
vendor/bin/phpunit