I think you really need to ask for first name and last name separately,
or just accept the full name the way they enter it.
You run into problems in certain cultures where the surname is used
first.
Also, I remember one lady named [sp]:
sue man joe
How do handle that?
HTH
Dick
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 02:17 PM, S. Isaac Dealey wrote:
> Well, if you had a full name, i.e. "Allan Mac Donald" and you wanted to
> eliminate the 2nd space, you could use
>
> <cfset newname = REReplace(trim(oldname),"([[:alpha:]]+?)
> +?([[:alpha:]]*?)
> ([[:alpha:]]+?)$","\1 \2\3")>
>
> Of course, this assumes that there aren't any numbers in the person's
> name... if you want to allow digits, just change [:alpha:] to
> [:alnum:] ...
> You could also use [[:space:]]+? instead of the space if you thought
> there
> might be carriage returns in the middle of the name. :)
>
> <OFF_TOPIC>
>
> "As a group or an individual you have the right to be called whatever
> you
> want. Your name can be spelled S-M-I-T-H and pronounced 'jenovsky'.
> What's
> your name? Jenovsky. How's that spelled? S-m-i-t-h. What?! They're all
> silent, nevermind..."
>
> -- George Carlin
>
> </OFF_TOPIC>
>
>
> hth
>
> Isaac Dealey
> Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer
>
> www.turnkey.to
> 954-776-0046
>
>> Rebecca Joy Sherman writes:
>
>> <cfoutput>#replace("Mac Donald", " ", "", "all")#</cfoutput>
>
>> will work...
>
>> there's probably a regular expression to search for a space...i just
>> don't
>> know reg exps :(
>
>> charlie
>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get CF to delete the space in between a name.
>>> ie...
>>> "Mac
>>> Donald" to just "MacDonald"?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Joy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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