How to Parse and Validate a Full Name in C# .NET Framework

Parsing a person’s name is actually quite a difficult task for a computer. There are a ton of different pieces that can make up someone’s full name, including titles, nicknames, and middle names to name a few. Trying to account for all of these reliably is a chore of the Nth degree. Today I will be giving you the keys (terrible pun!) to an API that can deal with this for us!

First we shall download our package using NuGet.

Install-Package Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate -Version 3.0.6

Now this little bit of code here can be used for calling our name validation function:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate.Api;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate.Client;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate.Model;
namespace Example
{
public class NameValidateFullNameExample
{
public void main()
{
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
Configuration.Default.AddApiKey("Apikey", "YOUR_API_KEY");
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// Configuration.Default.AddApiKeyPrefix("Apikey", "Bearer");
var apiInstance = new NameApi();
var input = new FullNameValidationRequest(); // FullNameValidationRequest | Validation request information
try
{
// Parse and validate a full name
FullNameValidationResponse result = apiInstance.NameValidateFullName(input);
Debug.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Debug.Print("Exception when calling NameApi.NameValidateFullName: " + e.Message );
}
}
}
}

And would you look at that? We’re already done.