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To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: commons-validator regex validation
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 12:54:43 GMT
Priority: normal
Message-id: <3f816613.6426.1804289383@wideopenwest.com>

yes, I'm looking for somthing to validate a string is
[a-zA-Z ]+ and am using the validator framework to validate
a POJO. (non struts).  regarding the issues of extra
characters (hyphens, appostrophe, period, etc), i'm just
going off the "business requirements"/technical design
document i recieved.  i'll raise that question back to the
business.

>
> 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...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mlybarger@wideopenwest.com
> > [mailto:mlybarger@wideopenwest.com] Sent: 06 October
> > 2003 12:10 To: commons-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: commons-validator regex validation
> >
> >
> > 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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