Regex for names with special characters (Unicode)

Question

Okay, I have read about regex all day now, and still don\'t understand it properly. What i\'m trying to do is validate a name, but the functions i can find for this on the i

Answer 1

When checking your input string you could

• trim() it to remove leading/trailing whitespaces
• match against [^\w\s] to detect non-word\non-whitespace characters
• match against \s+ to get the number of word separators which equals to number of words + 1.

However I'm not sure that the \w shorthand includes accented characters, but it should fall into "word characters" category.