[PHP] Re: Q on RegExp & extended Char
Jswalter schrieb: ... - allow apostrophes, but only if preceded *and* followed by a Alpha/Extend - allow hyphen/dash, but only if preceded *and* followed by a Alpha/Extend ... hi walter, how about something like this: $_alpha = 'a-zA-Z'; // standard latin letters $_xascii = '\x80-\xFF'; // extended ascii-codes $_achar = $_alpha.$_xascii; // allowed characters $regex = '/^['.$_achar.']+(\'|-)['.$_achar.']+$/'; ?> hth SVEN -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Q on RegExp & extended Char
I should have posted some "rules" with this... assuming: - a SPACE is used to delimit first from last name [Walter Torres] - a HYPHEN is used to separate a dual name (British style) [Conrad-Smyth] - an APOSTROPHE is used in many Irish and Scotish names [O'Reilly] - a PERIOD is used in titles, suffixes [Dr. Sr. Jr.] - a PERIOD is used for Initials [Walter G. Torres] then... - allow apostrophes, but only if preceded *and* followed by a Alpha/Extend - allow hyphen/dash, but only if preceded *and* followed by a Alpha/Extend - allow PERIOD, but only if preceded by a Alpha/Extend *and* followed by a SPACE or EOS - allow SPACE, but only if preceded *and* followed by a Alpha/Extend also... - allow x80 thru xFF I've come up with this... /^([a-z\x80-\xFF]+(. )?[ ]?)+$/i |_||___||__| ^ ^^ ^ | || | | whole block ONE or more times || | || | SPACE - ZERO or ONE times alpha & extended | ONE or more | PERIOD - ZERO or ONE times but I can't seem to figure out how to get the HYPEN & apostrophe rules in here. But this does allow multiple spaces - which It really shouldn't but... It also lets me add SPACEs at the end, oh well... Any ideas? Thanks Walter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Q on RegExp & extended Char
Jswalter schrieb: 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 innehålla 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Q on RegExp & extended Char
Well have you thought about maybe an array of illegal or extended
characters and simply replacing them?
eg.
$b = $_POST['whatever_variables_you_have'];
$match = array("ö","ç","ä");
$replace = array("o","c","a");
$z = str_replace($match,$replace,$b);
Might not be exactly what you want but hope it helps.
Jas
Jswalter wrote:
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
innehålla
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
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