Regular expression for two alphabetical names concatinating by dot (.)

Question

I need regular expression for something like: abc.xyz (firstname.lastname) I have tried [a-zA-Z ]*$\.[a-zA-Z ]*$ but it does not work.

Update

My actual requirement is to add user's firstname.lastname in url to get something like:

www.abc.com/simer.pqr/profile

This I have to do for django(python) project. Therefore need regular expression.

For the exact requirement I have posted another question SO question - rewrite django url

Why using `$` (end of line)? Remove them and replace `*` with `+`: `[a-zA-Z ]+\.[a-zA-Z ]+`. Or better `[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z ]*\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z ]*`. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Aug 10 '16 at 10:51
Do you need to validate or extract? Did the expression above work? — Wiktor Stribiżew, Aug 10 '16 at 11:35
@WiktorStribiżew I want to write rule for url. It unfortunately didn't help. — Always_a_learner, Aug 10 '16 at 11:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '16 at 10:38

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$ means end of string, so you should not use it inside your string.

Your URL regexp should look like ^(P?<fname>[^.]+)\.(?P<lname>[^/]+)/profile$

answered Aug 14 '16 at 10:38

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