I've hit my limit on regular expressions.
I need to check a string to see if it contains legal characters...
A thru Z [a-z], SPACE, PERIOD, DASH/HYPHEN, APOSTROPHE [\' -,\.]
OK, this is not a problem.
My problem comes in with extended characters, as these examples... González Vänligen före innehĺlla
I'm trying to build a RegExp that will see if the string is a proper name format or not.
Names only have A thru Z, extended characters for other languages (than English), SPACE, PERIOD, DASH/HYPHEN, APOSTROPHE Dr. Roger O'Malley Mrs. Sara Harris-Henderson
I have a RegExp to do English letters, but not the extended set... Manuel González Försök Bokstäver Contém Espaço-Válido
(Ok, these are not really names, but you get the idea)
Any ideas on this?
All I want to know is if a given string contains only these types of characters. anything else would give me a FALSE.
Thanks Walter
hi walter,
because most of these chars are extended ascii (decimal: 128-255), this regex should work: '/\x80-\xFF/' (hex-values). also take care of the minus in your regex if it doesn't stand on start or end of your char-group it means 'from-to'!
hth SVEN
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