php-general Digest 1 Jan 2011 14:36:19 -0000 Issue 7111
Topics (messages 310439 through 310441):
Re: Regex for telephone numbers
310439 by: Daniel P. Brown
Regex for ... genealogical names
310440 by: Lester Caine
310441 by: Ashley Sheridan
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 19:09, Jim Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Actually...
>
> Specified here [1] it says that the {1,} is the same as '+'. I think you
> should
> drop the comma. If you don't this would be valid 844-2345-123456
>
> ^[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[0-9]{4,}$
>
> should be
>
> ^[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}\-[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}\-[0-9]{4}$
Bah, you're absolutely correct. Force of habit with the commas.
I didn't even notice the sample test cases I put into that test array
didn't check for more than the number of digits per field, either.
Good catch, Jim, and Happy New Year.
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A slightly more complex problem than phone numbers ...
It is a sort of convention to use the format 'JohnDoeSMITH' or 'John Doe SMITH'
where each forename starts with a capital and the surname is in upper case. I
have a crude method of scanning for the capitals and splitting this to give me
an array of name segments with [0] as the Surname and a variable number of
Forenames, but is there an 'elegant' way via regex to extract this into an array?
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On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 09:46 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> A slightly more complex problem than phone numbers ...
>
> It is a sort of convention to use the format 'JohnDoeSMITH' or 'John Doe
> SMITH'
> where each forename starts with a capital and the surname is in upper case. I
> have a crude method of scanning for the capitals and splitting this to give
> me
> an array of name segments with [0] as the Surname and a variable number of
> Forenames, but is there an 'elegant' way via regex to extract this into an
> array?
>
> --
> Lester Caine - G8HFL
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> Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact
> L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk
> EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/
> Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk//
> Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php
>
I wouldn't try and do this with a regex, it would just become too
complicated. What about people with no middle name, or multiple middle
names? How do you deal with double-barrelled names like John
Walter-Smythe Doe? You would be far better off using multiple input
boxes for this sort of thing, and then format it as required when
outputting the data.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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