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micnolmad
micnolmad

Reputation: 25

RegEx to match two or more names in a string

I am looking for a pattern that will match only if there are two or more names in the string.

I have so far made this:

/(?:\w{2,}\s){2,}/g;


function test() {
  var pattern = /(?:\w{2,}\s){2,}/g;
  var pse = ps.children;
  var poe = po.children
  var c = pse.length;
  for (i = 0; i < c; i++) {
    poe[i].textContent = ""+pse[i].textContent.match(pattern);
  }
}

test();
#ps{background-color:#9CFF1C;}
#po{background-color:#AAFFFF;}
<div id="ps">
  <p>Name</p>
  <p>Name Name</p>
  <p>Name Name Name</p>
  <p>Name Name Name  </p>
</div>
<div id="po">
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
</div>
<div id="op"></div>

which yields those results. Seems the snippet strips out whitespaces so I can't provide a correct data sample but it would be easy to copy this to another js fidler site.

But I do not want the trailing white space. How do I define the pattern so that the white space is only matched when between words? Or is the problem elsewhere?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 876

Answers (1)

bvaughn
bvaughn

Reputation: 13487

I may be misunderstanding you, but what about this?

// The "^" character marks the start of the string
// The "$" character marks the end
// Wrapping your expression with these prevents leading and trailing whitespace
var regex = /^(\w+ )+\w+$/;

// Accepts:
regex.test('Brian Vaughn');
regex.test('Brian David Vaughn');

// Rejects:
regex.test(' Brian Vaughn');
regex.test('Brian Vaughn ');
regex.test('Brian');

Upvotes: 1

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