Re: Resolved: Good Name Filtering regex

[George Schlossnagle]

Hyphenated names don't cut it in your world. Or names with attached qualifiers like 'Jr.'. Or titles like ', M.D.'

So Pei Wu-Schlossnagle, PhD.





Chuck Tomasi wrote:

One of my cohorts pointed me in the right direction.  I should have known
this from previous experience.

if ($st !~ /^[a-zA-Z \']+$/) {
	print "$st: bad chars found\n";
} else {
	print "$st: OK\n";
}

A simple "^" at the beginning and "$" at the end.

Thanks to all who assisted with the group-think.

--Chuck

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