apostrophes "Joseph N'dongo" or something. Also Irish names like O'Bannon.
any accent/non-latin character. tabs [for lazy space people].
full-stops 'Ian St. John'.
Possibly amphersands if they decide to sign up 'Jack & Jill Hope-Jones'.
List goes on :)
On the question itself, I've no idea about Validator, but sounds like you
just want a regex akin to:
[a-zA-Z ]+
Hen
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hope, Matthew wrote:
> Just out of interest how are you going to handle double barrelled surnames
> with hyphens?
>
> Matthew Hope-Jones for example
>
> This has become more common as people take both parents surnames outside of
> marriage...
>
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> Is there an example of an alpha only mask (no numbers or special characters)
> for using the commons validator? I'm not using the validator within the
> struts framework. I have to validate first name/last name fields only
> contains [a-z] [A-Z] or a space. I'm limited to jdk 1.3.1 (bea wls 6.1)
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