Java Regex to Validate Full Name allow only Spaces and Letters

Question

I want regex to validate for only letters and spaces. Basically this is to validate full name. Ex: Mr Steve Collins or Steve Collins I tried this regex. "[a-zA-Z]+.?" But didnt work. Can someone assist me please p.s. I use Java.

public static boolean validateLetters(String txt) {

    String regx = "[a-zA-Z]+\.?";
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regx,Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(txt);
    return matcher.find();

}

Answer 1

What about:

• Peter Müller
• Fran?ois 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