interesting stuff….not really
Was just checking out one of those 416/905 groups….wow, so many people put an apostrophe in the beginning of their name just so it would appear on the first page. Anyway if you have noticed, groups pages list people in ascii order. So I played around a little trying to see if any character before the apostrophe would work. Of course not, even I have written reg expressions to filter that. But one thing the friendster developers forgot, is to check where the apostrophe is located. Note to developers: no one has an apostrophe as the first character of their name. I’m sure you will get around to correcting that some day.
Why didn’t I keep that in my name? Only superficial losers need that sort of shit. I use friendster for what it is. All the people on my list are my friends (with 2 exceptions). I don’t abuse the system and just randomly add strangers to my list.
btw, if anyone is interested, the correct expression to use is
[A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z' ]?[A-Za-z']?
Make sure first name field on that expression is true, then allow it to be submitted to the database. Oh and of course, do a space trim. Some strange people might have spaces for their first name, so I allowed this, as long as it’s not the first character.
yes yes, Nerd I am. with a cap N.
