exporter: handle names surrounded with underscores

Handle underscores which surround the full name, not just a part of
it. In this case, then the whole thing should be considered as the name,
and the last name should be left nil.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mssola@mssola.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/base_exporter.rb b/lib/base_exporter.rb
index a67784e..7879af1 100644
--- a/lib/base_exporter.rb
+++ b/lib/base_exporter.rb
@@ -19,10 +19,20 @@ class BaseExporter
   #   - 'Name Surname' -> ['Name', 'Surname']
   #   - 'Compound Name Surname' -> ['Compound Name', 'Surname']
   #   - 'Name _Surname1 Surname2_' -> ['Name', 'Surname1 Surname2']
+  #   - '_Special name_' -> ['Special name', nil]
   def parse_author(author:)
+    # Special case: the user might set the whole thing as the name on special
+    # scenarios. In this case everything will be surrounded by
+    # underscores. Hence, if this is the case, then just return the whole thing
+    # as a name with undescores stripped.
+    return [author.delete('_'), nil] if /^\s*_(.+)_\s*$/.match?(author)
+
+    # Other underscore scenarios are handled here.
     matches = /(.+)?\s_(.+)_/.match(author)
     return matches[1].strip, matches[2].strip if matches&.size == 3
 
+    # Otherwise we fallback to the usual route.
+
     a = author.split
     return [author, nil] if a.size == 1