Stripping just white space makes sense to me. Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org
Currently reading: *Shelter* by Jung Yun Just Finished: *Contact* by Carl Sagan For information about accessibility at the library, please see: http://forbeslibrary.org/accessibility/ On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Josh Stompro <stomp...@exchange.larl.org> wrote: > Hello, I was just asked why staff couldn’t find a patron record by name > using the XUL staff client patron search. Jason E. helped me find the > culprit. The XUL patron search strips leading and trailing whitespace and > numbers from first given name, second given name and last name before > sending in the search. > > > > We allow business/institution accounts and the business in question starts > with a number “123 Insurance Inc.” We normally set both the first and last > name to the full business name in these cases. > > > > Before the following change in May 2009 the form was set to strip out non > word characters, so characters, numbers and underscores were allowed. The > change was made because Unicode characters are matched as non word > characters with the \W class. So it wasn’t possible to search for names > starting in Unicode characters. But with the change numbers were no longer > allowed. Punctuation characters were also stripped out before the change, > but not after. > > > > [evergreen|dbs] Use Unicode-friendly regular expressions for registering > and retrieving patrons by name – > > http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=f7db7f5 > > > > I’m wondering if anyone would support changing this to just stripping out > leading/trailing whitespace, taking out the \d so numbers are allowed again. > > Thanks > > > > Lake Agassiz Regional Library - Moorhead MN larl.org > > Josh Stompro | Office 218.233.3757 EXT-139 <(218)%20233-3757> > > LARL IT Director | Cell 218.790.2110 <(218)%20790-2110> > > >