Business::CompanyDesignator is a perl module for matching and stripping company designators (like Limited, Ltd., LLC, GmbH, etc.) appended to company names.
It uses the company designator dataset from here:
https://github.com/ProfoundNetworks/company_designator
which is bundled with the module. You can use your own (updated or custom) version, if you prefer.
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Business::CompanyDesignator
perldoc Business::CompanyDesignator::Record
Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Gavin Carr.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.