On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:50, André Medeiros wrote: > You can have four words to describe a first and last name... you can > have other alphabets, like arabian, chinese, etc... inserting accented > characters alone would make that a big, nasty regex, let alone > predicting ways you can describe first/last names. > > I'm not saying that I have the _BEST_ sollution. All I'm saying is that > there are sittuations that are out of your control, and it seems to me > this might be the easiest way out, guaranteeing that there are at least > two words. Most Chinese would enter their name (usually 3 words, sometimes 2. rarely 4) WITHOUT any spaces. Not sure what the OP was trying to do, but the best way to handle it (IMHO) is to give the user 2 input boxes, one for family name, the other for the rest of their name. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
