XF 2.2 regex for username to require at least a single space

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chrisf

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On our forums we require users to use their real name. We even have text right below the username box in bold and red stating this. For some reason 1-2 registrations a day people ignore that and we go in and reject their registration. I wanted to see if there was a way to require at least a single space in the username so we know the username is at least two words. We have a fair amount of international users so I don't want to restrict it to just two words though. My main goal is to stop at the source 90% of our problems which is people putting in just their first name or a single word as a screen name. I figured if we could do a regex that searches for at least a single or more spaces that should do it. Whats your guys thoughts? Thanks!!
 
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/([a-zA-Z]+\s?\b){2,}/ is what I figured out in that it matches two or more words with a space in between. It seems to work for my setup. I may go back and tweak it so it forces people to not use all lower case or all upper case but for now this is a good start.
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/([a-zA-Z]+\s?\b){2,}/ is what I figured out in that it matches two or more words with a space in between. It seems to work for my setup. I may go back and tweak it so it forces people to not use all lower case or all upper case but for now this is a good start.
 
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