that could work but the user may now submit one or more apostrophes
as the Last Name.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, John Nichel wrote:
> Try....
>
> preg_match ( "/[A-Za-z-']+/", $_POST['Last_Name'] );
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have been trying to validate a form field Last_Name and have been unable
> > to find a regexp to account for the apostrophe (e.g., O'Reilly). The
> > following statement:
> >
> > preg_match('/^[[:alpha:]]+[-]?[[:alpha:]]+$/', $_POST[Last_Name])
> >
> > accepts hyphenated surnames and I have tried escaping the apostrophe:
> > [\\'] and [\\\'] to no avail. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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