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 apostro
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-']+/", $_POST['Last_Name'] );
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have been trying to validate a form field Last_Name and have been un
I use preg_match to validate the Middle Initial field of a form and so far
it works, except yesterday a user submitted a "0" (zero) as a middle
initial! My regexp is:
if (!empty($_POST[MI]) && (preg_match('/^[[:alpha:]]{1,1}$/', $_POST[MI]) == 0))
I tested it with 0-9 and my regexp catches ever
Thank you. I did the following:
if (isset($_POST[MI]) && (preg_match('/^[[:alpha:]]{1,1}$/', $_POST[MI]) == 0))
and zero is caught.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, CPT John W. Holmes wrote:
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I use preg_match to validate the Middle Initial field of a form and so far
> > i
I believe I spoke too soon. If I use isset() then even if I leave the
field empty it still returns true. I am trying to view the documentation for
this function but php.net seems to be timing out now.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thank you. I did the following:
>
> if (iss
I just tried your regexp:
(preg_match("/[a-z](\\')?[a-z-]+/i",$_POST[Last_Name])
and it allows the following:
O' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems to allow any number of characters and spaces between the O' and
Re
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, John W. Holmes wrote:
> > > preg_match ( "/[A-Za-z-']+/", $_POST
When I do that:
(preg_match("/^[a-z](\\')?[a-z-]+$/i",$_POST[Last_Name])
it won't allow O'Reilly
and seems to not allow anything at all
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jennifer Goodie wrote:
> That is because it is not saying that is all that can be in the string. The
> 'Re' matches that pattern. Put a
Thank you. Strip_slashes was the key. The following Regular
Expression:
(preg_match("/^[[:alpha:]]{2,}[-]?[[:alpha:]]+$|^[[:alpha:]]{2,}[[:space:]]?[[:alpha:]]+$|^[[:alpha:]]{1,1}[']?[[:alpha:]]+$/",
$Last_Name)
allows only alphabetical characters (e.g., Smith), alphabetical characters
with wh
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