RE: [PHP] Regular Expression

John, What about foreign names...such as the umlaut in German? I'm not interested in allowing ALL of the characters, just the most common ones...I'd hate to restrict a genuine registration because the name contains an unaccepted character. Know what I mean? --- "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: > > I need a regular expression to verify various > inputs > > on my form. I know the base case of: > > > > "^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$" > > > > matches any letter or number. I'm looking for > various > > input from the list as to what characters should > be > > allowed in the following fields: > > > > Name: I would think -, ', and space for sure. > Anything > > else I don't know. I don't know how to write the > > expression for this though. I tried escaping the - > > like \-, but that doesn't work. > > Allow a period, too, for names like "St. Laurent" > "^[-a-zA-Z0-9' .]+$" > > > Street Address: Same as above, with # > > Again, periods for "Ave." > "^[-a-zA-Z0-9#' .]+$" > > > City: Just ' ?? > > I'd allow space and period, too, for "Ft. Gordon" > for example. > > "^[-a-zA-Z0-9' .]+$" > > > As I said, I'm looking for input, and how to > actually > > write these expressions. > > Hope that helps. > > ---John Holmes... > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com