siapa

Malay Name Parser: A simple script for parsing complex Malay names into their individual components.

Parses Malay names into 5 components:

• Title
• First name
• Middle names
• Last names
• Suffixes

Quick start

Install: npm install siapa

An example:

var siapa = require('siapa');
var name = siapa.parse('Dato\' Ir. Dr. Hariadi Hinta')
console.log(name.title, name.first, name.suffixes, name.middle_names, name.last_names)

Contributing

For linting and testing this project uses Grunt ~0.4.1, but Grunt is not required to use this parser. Check out the Getting Started guide to learn more about Grunt.

1. git clone https://github.com/hariadi/siapa.git
2. cd siapa && npm install
3. grunt

Thank you.

Credit

Many of these name parser logic come from the following repos:

• Javascript version, by John Griffey
• Python version, by Derek Gulbranson
• PHP version, by G. Miernicki

Release History

• 2013-11-16 v0.1.2 Add more salutations test
• 2013-06-29 v0.1.1 Add test
• 2013-05-09 v0.1.0 First commit