AFAIK \p{Alpha}, \p{javaLowerCase}, \p{Lower} and others mentioned
all deal with ascii
If you want to match any letter in any language then
\p{L}
and that matches accented ones as well.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Madtyn <mad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I already use quickRex, a wonderful and handy tool but I didn't know
> which flavour did I have to use, so I was confused about that.
>
> About the \p{javaLowerCase}\p{javaUpperCase}, it seems to have
> problems with 'ñ' spanish letter and letters with graphical accents.
> Maybe I did something wrong. I finally put:
>
> nombre-regexp=^[\p{javaLowerCase}\p{javaUpperCase}\p{javaWhitespace}]+$
> apellidos-regexp=^[\p{javaLowerCase}\p{javaUpperCase}\p{javaWhitespace}-]+$
>
> Only added the whitespace for composite names to be possible.
>
>
> Anyway, the other pattern seems to work perfectly now.
>
> If someone is interested, these are the patterns I use:
>
> nombre-regexp=^([a-zÑñçÇA-ZáéíóúÁÉÍÓÚ ])+
> apellidos-regexp=^([a-zÑñçÇA-ZáéíóúÁÉÍÓÚ -])+
>
> Almost identical to the Alejandro's one.
>
>
>
> Thanks, Thiago, Martin
> and Alejandro.
>
>
>
>
>
> 2009/9/21 Martin Strand <do.not.eat.yellow.s...@gmail.com>:
>> There are java specific operators that match letters:
>> \p{javaLowerCase}
>> \p{javaUpperCase}
>>
>> So to make sure a string only contains letters (in any language) you could
>> do this:
>>
>> ^[\p{javaLowerCase}\p{javaUpperCase}]+$
>>
>>
>> If you're using Eclipse you might find this plugin handy, it allows you to
>> test regular expressions with ease:
>> http://bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/toc.html
>> http://bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/installation.html
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:33:11 +0200, Madtyn <mad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I have some doubts about the regexp validators in Tapestry. I have
>>> learnt some about regexp but after making some validating with
>>> success, I haven't been able to do two things:
>>>
>>> 1) Which flavour of regexp does Tapestry use? I have looked for it on
>>> the Internet but I couldn't find out. I know that there are the regexp
>>> from Javascript, Jakarta and many others but I don't know which one of
>>> them Tapestry's belongs to.
>>>
>>> 2) Because of the former, I can't make a correct regexp for name and
>>> surname fields. I've tried the following:
>>>
>>> nombre-regexp=^([a-zÑñA-Z _.-])+ // This is the name
>>> apellidos-regexp=^([a-zÑñA-Z _.-])+ // This is the surname
>>>
>>> I'm trying to avoid all characters which are not letters, (you
>>> shouldn't have a name containing numbers, dots....) but this is the
>>> more accurate I got and allow numbers (not at the beginning) and it's
>>> not what I want.
>>>
>>> Maybe some spanish Tapestry experts around here could help me with
>>> getting the 'ñ' spanish letter into the regular expressión, as well as
>>> accents.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much on advance.
>>
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