regex first and last name

@kiwisFeb 13.2022

I’ve never got my head around these regex things.

I’m looking to match firstname-lastname

I know (A-Za-z) will match the names without the hyphen between them but I have a hyphen .

I also need to cater for comma and hyphen within the names, as well as between their first and last name.

I don’t need to separate them, just find this pattern.

Any help please

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@kiwisauthorFeb 13.2022 — #This is where I'm at. It works expect for the comma


 ^([A-Za-z]*-+)

@NogDogFeb 13.2022 — #Difficult to give a good answer without understanding the context. For example, /b[a-z,-]+b/i ("/i" for case-insensitive) would match (I think), but it might match other non-name things as well. If a hyphen somewhere in the middle is required, that might make it a bit more specific:

<i>
 </i>/b[a-z,]+-[a-z,-]+b/i

For now I'm using "b" word-**b**oundary indicators rather than locking it to the start of the string with "^", but of course if in fact it's always at the start of the string, you could change it back to that.

@kiwisauthorFeb 14.2022 — #@NogDog#1642444

I have a URL it's like

mypage.com/123/Nog-Dog

I can get the 123 from the link, But trying to get the second part. Your name might be Nog's-Dog or Nog-Nog-Dog

It's a pain, it's not my URL's but trying to redirect it

@NogDogFeb 14.2022 — #Doesn't sound like you need to do any filtering, instead just grabbing whatever is there, maybe like...

<i>
 </i>^([0-9]+)/(.+)

$1 would then have "123" and $2 would have "Nog-Dog"

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