Re: Regex for properly formed names

Erik Brandsberg <erik@heimdalldata.com>

From: Erik Brandsberg <erik@heimdalldata.com>
To: Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-10-11T15:16:29Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
Pointing back to Karsen's comment, what IS the definition, and instead of
asking "what is the regex" bring the question to a higher level, such as
"How can I validate that an insert on a "name" field has all the words
capitalized (but just the first word).  From a formal name perspective
however, a name doesn't have all words capitalized, like "of" and "and"
would be lower case.  It may be easier to implement different logic than a
regex to do this.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 9:01 AM Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> What is the regex for properly formed names?
>
> Scenario,
>
> Bus Stop (St Peter's Church)
>
> Scenario - wrongly formed name
>
> Bus stop (st peter's church)
>
> How to write a regex to detect wrongly formed names?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>


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