Javascript regex: test people's name

Question

Hi,

From this questions : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3073176/javascript-regex-only-letters-allowed

How can I make that expression test for people's name? Currently it doesn't allow spaces between names at all. I need to be able to match something like John Doe

Cheers

Answer 1

/^[a-zA-Z ]+$/.test( 'John Doe')

Throw any symbols you need in the character class. This is why I said be specific about exactly what you want to validate. This regex will not account for accented characters, if you care about that you'd most likely better go with unicode matching.

Answer 2

Just add a space

^[\w ]+$

Nor sure if it's your need.