Posted by John Nichel on 11/14/58 11:22

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

/^[a-zA-Z]{1,}\s[a-zA-Z]{1,}$/

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