Regular expression for both first and last name?

[Steve Grosz]

I'm new to regular expressions, can someone explain to me how I can
write one that will check for 2 names, at least, for a name field?

Thanks!
Steve

[MikerRoo]

The following code checks for and extracts two English/Irish names seperated by
whitespace and/or commas.

Cheers,
-- MikeR

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<CFSCRIPT>
sInput1 = " Billy ";
sInput2 = " O'Toole, Tommy ";

sNameFormat = "[a-z']+";
sNameSeperators = "[\s,]+";

if (0 NEQ REFindNoCase (sNameFormat & sNameSeperators & sNameFormat,
sInput2))
{
WriteOutput
(
'"#sInput2#" has the names ' &
REReplaceNoCase
(
sInput2,
"(#sNameFormat#)#sNameSeperators#(#sNameFormat #)",
'"\1" and "\2"'
)
);
}
</CFSCRIPT>




<CFSCRIPT>
sInput1 = " Billy ";
sInput2 = " O'Toole, Tommy ";

sNameFormat = "[a-z']+";
sNameSeperators = "[\s,]+";

if (0 NEQ REFindNoCase (sNameFormat & sNameSeperators & sNameFormat,
sInput2))
{
WriteOutput
(
'"#sInput2#" has the names ' &
REReplaceNoCase
(
sInput2,
"(#sNameFormat#)#sNameSeperators#(#sNameFormat #)",
'"\1" and "\2"'
)
);
}
</CFSCRIPT>