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  • Andrew Gaskell
    #1

    Regular expression question with .NET

    Dear all

    I'm having problems generating a regular expression in .NET, having
    just started using regular expressions.

    I am trying to validate a user's full name. So far I have:

    [\D]* as the regular expression to prevent the user entering digits.

    However I also want to disallow the following characters which have no
    place in a name: !"£$%^&*()_-+=@:;{[}]~#>.<,?/|\`¬

    Can someone please tell me what I need to do to add to my current
    regular expression above in order to do this?

    Thanks very much
    Andrew
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    • Michael Lang
      #2
      Re: Regular expression question with .NET

      agaskelluk@yaho o.com (Andrew Gaskell) wrote in
      news:63c811db.0 309040631.56201 437@posting.goo gle.com:
      [color=blue]
      > Dear all
      >
      > I'm having problems generating a regular expression in .NET, having
      > just started using regular expressions.
      >
      > I am trying to validate a user's full name. So far I have:
      >
      > [\D]* as the regular expression to prevent the user entering digits.
      >
      > However I also want to disallow the following characters which have no
      > place in a name: !"£$%^&*()_-+=@:;{[}]~#>.<,?/|\`¬
      >
      > Can someone please tell me what I need to do to add to my current
      > regular expression above in order to do this?
      >
      > Thanks very much
      > Andrew
      >[/color]

      Why not just specify what the name CAN contain. It is much easier...

      [a-zA-Z]*

      --
      Michael Lang, MCSD
      See my .NET open source projects
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/colcodegen/ (simple generic code generator)
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbobjecter (database app code generator)
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/genadonet ("generic" ADO.NET)

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        • Andrew Gaskell
          #3
          Re: Regular expression question with .NET

          Michael
          thanks very much! I think I was making it too difficult!

          Regards
          Andrew

          Michael Lang <ml@nospam.co m> wrote in message news:<Xns93EC7B 7A0E3Flang1474i cqmailcom@207.4 6.248.16>...[color=blue]
          > agaskelluk@yaho o.com (Andrew Gaskell) wrote in
          > news:63c811db.0 309040631.56201 437@posting.goo gle.com:
          >[color=green]
          > > Dear all
          > >
          > > I'm having problems generating a regular expression in .NET, having
          > > just started using regular expressions.
          > >
          > > I am trying to validate a user's full name. So far I have:
          > >
          > > [\D]* as the regular expression to prevent the user entering digits.
          > >
          > > However I also want to disallow the following characters which have no
          > > place in a name: !"£$%^&*()_-+=@:;{[}]~#>.<,?/|\`¬
          > >
          > > Can someone please tell me what I need to do to add to my current
          > > regular expression above in order to do this?
          > >
          > > Thanks very much
          > > Andrew
          > >[/color]
          >
          > Why not just specify what the name CAN contain. It is much easier...
          >
          > [a-zA-Z]*[/color]

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