Re: preg_match - help please

"André Medeiros" <andre.caum@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1122479077.3613.7.camel@vaio... > 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 > > > > A reminder... sometimes First and Last name can contain three words. > There are portuguese names, like "Inês de Medeiros". Watch out for that > too. Or even four - like Rafael van der Vaart for example - so make sure that the surname box matches spaces as well, and special characters like the ê, as well as ' as in John O'Kane