I have to validate some user input:
A city should start with an uppercase letter followed by one or more lowercase letters, uppercase letters, or periods (.).

What I have is:
/^[A-Z][A-Za-z\.]\+/
preg_match('/^[A-Z][A-Za-z\.]\+/', $_POST['myCity'])

But it's not working, nothing I enter matches the pattern.
Any help is appreciated

iirc if you start with ^ you have to end with $, otherwise it's treated as "not" operator?

you should use some kind of regex test site. here's the first off google

http://www.phpliveregex.com/

tips for regex: start with a match (eg: starts with upper case), then slowly add each new criteria.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Nov 7 2014 04:59pm