in reply to simple regex for names or last names

I just recently spent a lot of time doing this without the lingua module. I can tell the most important thing you can do is to know your data format. If you post your data format I can help you come up with a few things probably.

Grygonos
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Re: simple regex for names or last names
by perleager (Pilgrim) on May 04, 2005 at 02:19 UTC
    Hello,

    I'm not sure, but is this question just asking to allow a field with aphabetical characters along with a - and . ?

    Of course like davidrw, a name can also contain a '. 

    unless ( param('Company Name') =~ /^[\w.\'-]+$/) {
   print "Invalid characters in name. Only alphanumeric characters and
+ the following symbols . ' - _  are allowed.";
}

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    Thanks,
    perleager
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