John,

What about foreign names...such as the umlaut in
German? I'm not interested in allowing ALL of the
characters, just the most common ones...I'd hate to
restrict a genuine registration because the name
contains an unaccepted character. Know what I mean?

--- "John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I need a regular expression to verify various
> inputs
> > on my form. I know the base case of:
> > 
> > "^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$"
> > 
> > matches any letter or number. I'm looking for
> various
> > input from the list as to what characters should
> be
> > allowed in the following fields:
> > 
> > Name: I would think -, ', and space for sure.
> Anything
> > else I don't know. I don't know how to write the
> > expression for this though. I tried escaping the -
> > like \-, but that doesn't work.
> 
> Allow a period, too, for names like "St. Laurent"
> "^[-a-zA-Z0-9' .]+$"
> 
> > Street Address: Same as above, with #
> 
> Again, periods for "Ave."
> "^[-a-zA-Z0-9#' .]+$"
>  
> > City: Just '  ??
> 
> I'd allow space and period, too, for "Ft. Gordon"
> for example.
> 
> "^[-a-zA-Z0-9' .]+$"
> 
> > As I said, I'm looking for input, and how to
> actually
> > write these expressions.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> ---John Holmes...
> 
> 


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