Question

regexes?

to validate a name with only characters and spaces e.g.

Jon Skeet

to validate a number having digits and dashes anywhere e.g.

423-4324234-423
4233-412341324

Answer 1

A basic english name:

([a-zA-Z]+\s*)+

Numbers with dashes anywhere except for beginning and end:

\d[-\d]+\d

Numbers with dashes anywhere:

[-\d]+

Edit:

If you are looking for name inside of a sentence, such as

Hello, my name is John Doe.

You can try and capture names based on two or more capitalized words in a row.

([A-Z][A-Za-z]+\s*){2,}