Reputation: 2805

regex'es to validate these

regexes?

to validate a name with only characters and spaces e.g.

Jon Skeet

to validate a number having digits and dashes anywhere e.g.

423-4324234-423
4233-412341324

Upvotes: 0

Answers (3)

Reputation: 57179

A basic english name:

([a-zA-Z]+\s*)+

Numbers with dashes anywhere except for beginning and end:

\d[-\d]+\d

Numbers with dashes anywhere:

[-\d]+

Edit:

If you are looking for name inside of a sentence, such as

Hello, my name is John Doe.

You can try and capture names based on two or more capitalized words in a row.

([A-Z][A-Za-z]+\s*){2,}

Upvotes: 2

Reputation: 91528

To match a name in any language :

/^[\p{L} '-]+$/

That matches O'Connors Anne-Marie El Niño ...

to match your example digits:

/^[\d-]+$/

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 152294

Jon Skeet

/([a-zA-Z ]+)/

423-4324234-423 4233-412341324

/([\d-]+)/

Upvotes: 1