Regular expression question with .NET

[Andrew Gaskell]

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

 

[Michael Lang]

(e-mail address removed) (Andrew Gaskell) wrote in

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

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)

 

[Andrew Gaskell]

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

Regards
Andrew

(e-mail address removed) (Andrew Gaskell) wrote in

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

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

[a-zA-Z]*