How validate username using regexp ?
For English letters, Numbers and spaces I am using :
/^[a-zA-Z]{1}([a-zA-Z0-9]|\s(?!\s)){4,14}[^\s]$/
How can i add arabic letters ?
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faressoft
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3Why validate a user name in the first place? What if it's a chinese name? Or a cyrillic one? – Pekka Nov 10 '10 at 15:15
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I found some examples here: http://old.nabble.com/RegEx-to-check-for-non-Latin-characters-td20509669.html – FrustratedWithFormsDesigner Nov 10 '10 at 15:15
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@I want only arabic and english not chinese name :) – faressoft Nov 10 '10 at 15:23
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Well that would depend if your characters are coming in as cp1256 or unicode. If its unicode you can use the range such as #([\x{0600}-\x{06FF}]+\s*) in your expression.
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you would use unicode regexes and match all letters:
/\pL+/u
(one or more letters)
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