[RESOLVED] Need Appropriate Reg Exp & Drop Down Check

I’m having a couple of issues with my form.

[B]1.[/B] I need a regular expression that allows only alpha chars for a name field. My regular expression is allowing this (John D##). Also my expression [B]isn’t[/B] allowing spaces between first and last names like this (John Doe).

[CODE]
function checkIllegalChars(theuser_name, error){

var name_exp = /[a-zA-Z]+/;

for(var i=0; i < theuser_name.length; i++)
{
the_char = theuser_name.charAt(i);

if (!name_exp.test(the_char))
{
error.val=2;
return false;
}

}
return true;
}
[/CODE]

[B]2.[/B] My form is suppose to make sure that a city is selected from the drop down menu. Here’s my code for that:

[CODE]
correct=checkSelOpts(sel_opt, error);

if (!correct)
{
error_mes += errors[error.val] + ‘<br>’;
}
…//[COLOR=”Blue”]else statement is further down…it’s not the problem[/COLOR]

…
function checkSelOpts(city_opts, error){

if (city_opts=”none”)
{
error.val=4;
return false;
}

return true;

}
[/CODE]

Now I’ve checked Firebug and “city_opts” has the value of whatever is selected. So that part is working. But when I hit submit, the form isn’t recognizing that a city was indeed selected. It still shows an error message regardless of a city being selected or not. Please help.

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