Generators/person.ps1
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function person { <# .SYNOPSIS The function intended to generate string with name of a random person .DESCRIPTION The function generate a random name of females or males based on provided culture like <FirstName><Space><LastName>. The first and last names are randomly selected from the file delivered with for the culture .PARAMETER Sex The sex of random person. .PARAMETER Culture The culture used for generate - default is the current culture. .LINK https://www.linkedin.com/in/sciesinskiwojciech .NOTES AUTHOR: Wojciech Sciesinski, wojciech[at]sciesinski[dot]net KEYWORDS: PowerShell VERSIONS HISTORY 0.1.0 - 2016-01-16 - The first version published as a part of NameIT powershell module https://github.com/dfinke/NameIT 0.1.1 - 2016-01-16 - Mistakes corrected, support for additional templates added, the paremeter Count removed 0.1.2 - 2016-01-18 - Incorrect usage Get-Random in the templates [person*] corrected, the example corrected The future version will be developed under https://github.com/it-praktyk/New-RandomPerson The source of last names for the en-US culture - taken the first 100 on the state 2016-01-15 http://names.mongabay.com/data/1000.html The source of the first names for the en-US culture - taken the first 100 on the state 2016-01-15 http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/united-states-decade/1980/100 .EXAMPLE [PS] > person Justin Carter The one name returned with random sex. .EXAMPLE [PS] > 1..3 | Foreach-Object -Process { person -Sex 'female' } Jacqueline Walker Julie Richardson Stacey Powell Three names returned, only women. #> [CmdletBinding()] param ( [ValidateSet("both", "female", "male")] [String]$Sex = "both", [ValidateSet("both", "first", "last")] [String]$NameParts = "both", [cultureinfo]$Culture = [cultureinfo]::CurrentCulture ) $AllNames = Resolve-LocalizedPath -Culture $Culture -ContentFile 'names.csv' | Import-CacheableCsv -UseCulture -Culture $Culture $AllNamesCount = $AllNames.Count $LastName = $AllNames[(Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $AllNamesCount)].LastName If ($Sex -eq 'both') { $RandomSex = (Get-Random @('Female', 'Male')) $FirstNameFieldName = "{0}FirstName" -f $RandomSex $FirstName = $AllNames[(Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $AllNamesCount)].$FirstNameFieldName } elseif ($Sex -eq 'female') { $FirstName = $AllNames[(Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $AllNamesCount)].FemaleFirstName } else { $FirstName = $AllNames[(Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $AllNamesCount)].MaleFirstName } switch ($NameParts) { "both" {"{0} {1}" -f $FirstName, $LastName} "first" {$FirstName} "last" {$LastName} } } |