Posted by "Mark Rees" on 11/14/83 11:22

"Andr� 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 "In�s 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 �, as
well as ' as in John O'Kane

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