preg_match - help please

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Hi

I want to see that a user is submiting a form field in the correct manner.
So I decided to use preg_match to verify their input.

The pattern I am trying to match is;

Firstname Secondname

I am not bothered about character length just yet (but advise on this would
be appreciated if it can be done with a regular expression - saves extra
checking code), but I would like case sensitity.

The code I haev so far, which doesn't seem to work is;

$un = $_REQUEST['name'];
$exp = '/^\b[a-zA-Z] [a-zA-Z]$/';

if (preg_match($exp, $un)) {
    //has this matched?
    echo "<h2>matched</h2>";
}

Help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Steve

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