Re: preg_match - help please

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 > http://pt.php.net/strpos