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Regex to allow A-Z, – and '

I have a form that asks for a name, and the name must not contain any numbers but can have a (‘) or a (-) e.g O’Neal, O-man.

I’ve already used is_string() but it seems to be strict, does any one of you know how to validate a string that accepts those kinds of values?

Answer 1

Try this:

if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z\\- \']+$/",$name)) {
  echo "Invalid";
}
else {
  echo "Valid";
}