Your Language Regex match full name "last, first middle1 middle2 suffix"

Question

Spent me 3 hours to get a good regex finished for parsing these 3 main possible situations.

Redden, Taylor Captain Hasting Jr.  
Redden, Taylor Hasting Jr.  
Redden, Taylor Hasting

full, l, f, m1, m2, s = /your_regex_here/.match("Redden, Taylor Captain Hasting Jr.").to_a

I want to see what other possible answers there are beside mine, in as many languages as possible. Bonus points if you can easily get just "Redden, Taylor" or even "Redden, The Greatest Captain etc Redden III"

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Answer 1

Ruby

a,l,f,m,m2,s=/^([A-z]+),*(\s+[A-z]+)(\s+[A-z]+)*(\s+[A-z]+)(\s+[A-z]+\.*)*$/.match("Redden, Taylor Captain Hasting Jr.").to_a

A few trims, and a join and your ready to go.

Answer 2

Most languages base their regular expression syntax off of Perl. The variation between regexes in modern languages are pretty small. If you use RegexBuddy you can have it spit out the regex in whichever language you choose.

Answer 3

As far as I understand You may be sure only in first and last names. Automatic parsing other names is bad idea - they will be frequently fail.