From: Todd Burch <promos@...>
Date: 2007-08-19T11:34:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this the perfect regex for validating first & last na

Alex LeDonne wrote:
> 
> Most assumptions about names turn out to be wrong.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_personal_names_that_contain_numbers
> 
> Note names like Jennifer 8. Lee, Perri 6, Nancy 3. Hoffman.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -A

HA HA.   Seeing as there are so few, I think I'll copy those names into 
an array and specifically reject them.   LOL.   I joked around with some 
buddies back in the mid 80's about prefixing my first kid's name with 
"DSN@", as the code we were working on at the time contained a lot of 
modules with this prefix.  We got a good laugh out of it.  Never did do 
it though - the wife (http://imdb.com/title/tt0092746/) wouldn't have 
gone for it.

I worked the regex out to my satisfaction.  I was taking the wrong 
approach.  I decided to reject invalid characters, or what I consider to 
be invalid characters for a human name on our planet, instead of only 
accepting valid characters.  Shorter, simpler, and it met my other goal 
of being one facet of stopping a potential spam injection as well.

Todd
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