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[Jake McGraw]

$proper_name = ucwords(strtolower($fullname));

Of course this messes up names like mine (Jake McGraw becomes Jake Mcgraw),
but, I'm used to it :(

jake

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Mintz <david at davidmintz.org> wrote:

>
> I'm trying to require users to input proper names with capitalization that
> conforms to convention. So, you can't go e. e. cummings on me, and you can't
> be JOHN SOMEBODY either. And you can't have your caps lock on and enter jOHN
> sOMEBODY. That much is pretty easy, but I am finding the more subtle cases
> pretty hard.
>
> So far, I have
>
>         /\b[a-z][A-Z]+|\b[A-Z]{2,}+|^[a-z ]+$/
>
> to test against (false is good). This works on all the cases I have tested
> except "cuMmings," which gets by. But I am thinking, maybe enough is enough;
> you can't control everything.
>
> Just wondering if anyone has tackled this before or has any thoughts.
>
> btw this is on top of other whitelist-style validation.
>
> --
> David Mintz
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