I was using this:

[^a-zA-Z][p{Zs}]

To validate a name field, it basically just has to consist of letters and spaces. But for some reason it would fail if the first letters of each word weren't capitalized!

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Not sure what the purpose of your second [] section is, but try

[^a-zA-Z]+[p{Zs}]

or

[^a-zA-Z]+[p{Zs}]+

Again, that's depending on what the second part is for.

You should take a look at this cheat sheet, or this one.

If you are using a linux box you can try regex with pcretest command

Thanks

Originally Posted by JeremyMiller

Not sure what the purpose of your second [] section is, but try

[^a-zA-Z]+[p{Zs}]

or

[^a-zA-Z]+[p{Zs}]+

Again, that's depending on what the second part is for.

I think the second part was to match a space character, but it was quite a while ago so I can't really remember why I did it like that!

For some reason this bit of code evaluates to true

var regex = new RegExp ('[a-zA-Z]');

alert (regex.test ('f4'));

I thought that a regex such as that would only allow uppercase and lowercase letters; nothing else. But the string 'f4' results in a match! Im not too sure what I'm doing from though? I presume I need a '\s' in there somewhere to match a space character aswell.

Try this:

 ^a-zA-Z'`-´\s{1,40}$

Validates a name. Allows up to 40 uppercase and lowercase characters and a few special characters that are common to some names.

Originally Posted by kline11

Try this:

 ^a-zA-Z'`-´\s{1,40}$

Validates a name. Allows up to 40 uppercase and lowercase characters and a few special characters that are common to some names.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by KkillgasmM

Thanks!

No problem, just let me know how it works out for you.