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 > ----------------------------- > 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
