incorrectly parsed name: "laxmi zasdfasdf"

[jasdeepgosal]

I ran across this name (though this is an anonymized version, obviously) that isn't parsing correctly:

irb(main):006:0> Namae.parse("laxmi zasdfasdf").first
=> #<Name family="zasdfasdf" particle="Laxmi">

I would've expected:

irb(main):006:0> Namae.parse("laxmi zasdfasdf").first
=> #<Name family="zasdfasdf" given="laxmi">

[inukshuk]

The parser takes lower- and upper case into account; this mode would detect something like 'van Beethoven'. Is it legitimate, in your case, that both names are lower case?

[jasdeepgosal]

It is legitimate that both names are lower case.

[inukshuk]

Hmm, I'll make a note of this, but off the top of my head, I have no good idea how to support all lower case names without having to resort to pattern matching for particles. Do you have any suggestions?

If you know for a fact that there are no particles in your data-set you could patch the parser to turn particle into given after the parsing, perhaps?