Question

Name format Many documents use a specific format for a person's name. Write a program whose input is: firstName middleName lastName, and whose output is: lastName, firstName middle Initial. If the input is Pat Silly Doe, the output is: Doe, Pat S. If the input has the form firstName lastName, the output is lastName, firstName. If the input is: Julia Clark, the output is: Clark, Julia Note: This lab focuses on strings; using a loop is not necessary.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. inputName = input("Input your name: ")
2. nameComp = inputName.split(" ")  
4. if(len(nameComp) == 3):
5.    print(nameComp[2] + ", " + nameComp[0] + " " + nameComp[1][0])
6. elif(len(nameComp) == 2):
7.    print(nameComp[1] + ", " + nameComp[0])
8. else:
9.    print("Invalid name")

Explanation:

The solution code is written in Python 3.

Firstly use input function to prompt user to enter a name (Line 1).

Next, use split method to divide the input name into a list of individual name components (first name, middle name and last name) by using a single space " " as separator (Line 2).

If the length of nameComp is equal to 3 (this means the input name consists of first, middle and last name), print the name in form of lastName, firstName and middle Initial. This can be done by using appropriate index to get the target name component from the nameComp list and reorder them in the print statement (Line 4-5).

If the nameComp is equal to 2 (this means input name only consists of first name and last name), use the similar way as above to use index to get the target name component from the nameComp list and reroder them in the print statement (Line 6-7).

Add one more else condition to handle the situation where invalid name is enter (Line 8-9).

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

def name(nameString):

   l = nameString.split(' ')

   if len(l)==3:

       firstName=l[0]

       middleName = l[1]

       lastName=l[2]

   else:

       firstName=l[0]

       lastName=l[1]

       middleName=""

   nameFormat=""

   if middleName!="":

       nameFormat = lastName+", "+firstName+", "+middleName[0]+"."

   else:

       nameFormat = lastName+", "+firstName

   return nameFormat

print(name("Pat Silly Doe"))

print(name("Julia Clark"))