Java Regex to Validate Full Name allow only Spaces and Letters
What about:
- Peter Müller
- François Hollande
- Patrick O'Brian
- Silvana Koch-Mehrin
Validating names is a difficult issue, because valid names are not only consisting of the letters A-Z.
At least you should use the Unicode property for letters and add more special characters. A first approach could be e.g.:
String regx = "^[\\p{L} .'-]+$";
\\p{L}
is a Unicode Character Property that matches any kind of letter from any language
try this regex (allowing Alphabets, Dots, Spaces):
"^[A-Za-z\s]{1,}[\.]{0,1}[A-Za-z\s]{0,}$" //regular
"^\pL+[\pL\pZ\pP]{0,}$" //unicode
This will also ensure DOT never comes at the start of the name.