Regular expressions......

[Anon]

Its the first time I've used these forums so.... hello everyone.

I've run into a niggly little problem. I've set up a pattern to check a user's first and last name in a submitted HTML form.

Obviously I don't want any numbers or symbols in a first or last name. So the code I've used is as follows:

$namecheck = "^{([a-z]+)([a-z])";}

Now it DOES check to make sure that the string a user enters begins with a letter but after the initial letter its not limiting the characters they can use. Any ideas why? Its driving me mad.

Many thanks,

John

[Anon]

You should look if there are numbers...so you can do this instead:

$name = "Diego Huang";

$result = preg_match('/[0-9]/', $name);

print ($result == 0) ? "correct" : "incorrect";

Diego