I Forked a Dead PHP Name Parser Because It Couldn't Tell a Credential From a Surname

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Here is a bug in a name-parsing library I use at work: // theiconic/name-parser $name = $parser->parse('Jane Doe DDS'); $name->getLastname(); // "Dds" $name->getMiddlename(); // "Doe" The dental credential is now her last name. The real surname got shoved into the middle-name field. Every row with a trailing credential and no comma had some version of this, and in a list of clinicians that is most…

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