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Need help with regular expressions

Discussion in 'PHP' started by khan11, Feb 15, 2011.

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  1. #1
    Hello everyone!

    I need some help with regular expressions. I'm using preg_match to validate name field for a form. I need to allow only alphabets and spaces. I'm unable to get it working for spaces. Please suggest me some code.

    Here is what i'm doing. if(!preg_match('[a-zA-Z\s]', $name))...

    Thanks
     
    khan11, Feb 15, 2011 IP
  2. crazyryan

    crazyryan Well-Known Member

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    #2
    Right now you're letting in just a single character, you need to wrap your expression in () and add + after the [] which means 1 or more.

    This should work: ([a-zA-Z\s]+)
     
    crazyryan, Feb 15, 2011 IP
  3. khan11

    khan11 Active Member

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    Thanks. But it's now letting everything pass through. Including numbers, special characters etc.. :-(
     
    khan11, Feb 15, 2011 IP
  4. MyVodaFone

    MyVodaFone Well-Known Member

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    #4
    Note the space after the second Z, thats all you have to do.
    
"/^[a-zA-Z ]+$/"
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    ..and this one indicates the first letter needs to be a Capital letter, which names should be I guess.
    
"/^[A-Z][a-zA-Z ]+$/"
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    MyVodaFone, Feb 15, 2011 IP
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  5. khan11

    khan11 Active Member

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    this worked fine for me. Thank you!
     
    khan11, Feb 15, 2011 IP
  6. way2tech

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    hi,
    this is work properly..
    Thanks..
     
    way2tech, Feb 16, 2011 IP