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Posted by Andrι Medeiros on 11/14/63 11:22
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:16 +0100, Mark Rees wrote:
> "AndrΓ© Medeiros" <andre.caum@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1122479077.3613.7.camel@vaio...
> > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:27 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I want to see that a user is submiting a form field in the correct
> manner.
> > > So I decided to use preg_match to verify their input.
> > >
> > > The pattern I am trying to match is;
> > >
> > > Firstname Secondname
> > >
> > > I am not bothered about character length just yet (but advise on this
> would
> > > be appreciated if it can be done with a regular expression - saves extra
> > > checking code), but I would like case sensitity.
> > >
> > > The code I haev so far, which doesn't seem to work is;
> > >
> > > $un = $_REQUEST['name'];
> > > $exp = '/^\b[a-zA-Z] [a-zA-Z]$/';
> > >
> > > if (preg_match($exp, $un)) {
> > > //has this matched?
> > > echo "<h2>matched</h2>";
> > > }
> > >
> > > Help would be greatly appreciated
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Steve
> > >
> >
> > A reminder... sometimes First and Last name can contain three words.
> > There are portuguese names, like "InΓͺs de Medeiros". Watch out for that
> > too.
>
> Or even four - like Rafael van der Vaart for example - so make sure that the
> surname box matches spaces as well, and special characters like the Γͺ, as
> well as ' as in John O'Kane
>
Yeah, that's why strpos will make his life much easier :)
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