From: Urban Hafner <urban@...>
Date: 2007-08-19T01:53:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this the perfect regex for validating first & last names?

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On Aug 18, 2007, at 19:39 , Todd Burch wrote:

> Perhaps a fairly bold statement, coming from a novice regex'er.   :)
>
> I'm creating a form (php) and have conjoured up this regex.

Are you really sure you want to ask a PHP question in a Ruby forum? I
guess you'll get a better answer in a PHP forum.

> My objective with this regex is to be sure I get a valid person's  
> name.
> With that, I am assuming a real name does not contain 0-9, punctuation
> chars, programming symbols, and so on.  I'm allowing more than one  
> part
> names, like "Mary Beth" and "de la Cruz", and I'm being flexible in  
> case
> the use more than one blank between names.  I've included all the
> diacritics I could find (except the a-e character that is merged - is
> this still in use?)

Sure it is (in Danish an Norwegian). And there's the � character. Oh and
those (and a few others) could also be upper case ...

Urban

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