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Reputation: 7992

Regular Expression to match Arabic or English Name

I wanted a regular expression that would match Arabic OR English Names that would allow only characters(alphabets) and spaces, I found a JavaScript RegEx that does the job

var regex = /^(?:[a-zA-Z\s\u0600-\u06FF\u0750-\u077F\u08A0-\u08FF\uFB50-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFDFF\uFE70-\uFEFF]|(?:\uD802[\uDE60-\uDE9F]|\uD83B[\uDE00-\uDEFF])){0,30}$/;

I converted it to PCRE compliant as

/^(?:[a-zA-Z\s\x{600}-\x{6FF}\x{750}-\x{77F}\x{8A0}-\x{8FF}\x{FB50}-\x{FDCF}\x{FDF0}-\x{FDFF}\x{FE70}-\x{FEFF}]|(?:\x{D802}[\x{DE60}-\x{DE9F}]|\x{D83B}[\x{DE00}-\x{DEFF}])){0,70}$/u

however when I try

var_dump(preg_match('/^(?:[a-zA-Z\s\x{0600}-\x{06FF}\x{0750}-\x{077F}\x{08A0}-\x{08FF}\x{FB50}-\x{FDCF}\x{FDF0}-\x{FDFF}\x{FE70}-\x{FEFF}]|(?:\x{D802}[\x{DE60}-\x{DE9F}]|\x{D83B}[\x{DE00}-\x{DEFF}])){0,70}$/u', 'Foo Bar'));

OR

var_dump(preg_match('/^(?:[a-zA-Z\s\x{600}-\x{6FF}\x{750}-\x{77F}\x{8A0}-\x{8FF}\x{FB50}-\x{FDCF}\x{FDF0}-\x{FDFF}\x{FE70}-\x{FEFF}]|(?:\x{D802}[\x{DE60}-\x{DE9F}]|\x{D83B}[\x{DE00}-\x{DEFF}])){0,70}$/u', 'Foo Bar'));

it returns

PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: disallowed Unicode code point (>= 0xd800 && <= 0xdfff) at offset 127 in php shell code on line 1 bool(false)

Please help to resolve this warning!

Any help appreciated! Thank You!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2744

Answers (1)

revo
revo

Reputation: 48761

If by letters you mean language main 28 characters you don't even have to construct a code-point based character class (you can build it by typing letters manually!).

But if you mean Arabic (0600–06FF, 255 characters) then again that long character class doesn't provide what you desire.

Anyhow you can go with this:

/^(?!.*\d)[a-z\p{Arabic}\s]+$/iu

Note: you may want to check for different blocks in Arabic script here.

Upvotes: 2

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