Preg_match to regex equivalent expression

Question

I am stuck on preg_match vs regex

I am trying to verify user input value on client side. For their first and last name i have this expressi

Answer 1

This was clearly not a duplicate!

Found this here that helped.

I found the solution;

/^[a-zA-Z0-9\u00C0-\u017F\s-'’]+$/

This line will only accept diacritics, letters, numbers, space, -,',’ Wich was exactly what i needed.

I just have to remove the numbers and it will be good for my names as well.