Hey friends! We have a few people signing up using completely random names such as First Name: LjkIjKEDsd Last Name: DjuEdGesD
I need to filter these out and stop zaps from firing for these bogus registrations.
Any ideas on how to accomplish?
Thanks so much!
Chris
Best answer by Troy Tessalone
Ok try this pattern instead: ^[A-Z]+[a-z]+$
Logic: checks that the first character is uppercase and the rest of the characters are lowercase.
True = Matches the pattern, which is good.
False = Does not match the patter, which is bad.
Again, be sure to test.
Also make sure to replace this static sample value with the dynamic values of the Name(s).
Note: You may have to do this step twice, once for first name, and once for last name.
+14Hi
Try this and be sure to test it out!
Zap App: Formatter > Text > Extract Pattern
Input: The values for the name(s) parameters
Pattern: \w*[A-Z]\w*[A-Z]\w*
Match: Will evaluate and return ‘true’ or ‘false’ that can then be used in a Filter step
You are a king Troy!
Our correctly formatted names ONLY have a capital letter in the front of the name.
Will this formula return a “false” for anything that has any other upper case names? Sorry, I’m just not sure how the wild cards and/or pattern recognition works.
From my side it looks as though the system would be looking for a xxXxxXxx (lower, lower, UPPER) pattern.
Thanks again for your time and helping me understand how the pattern function works, much appreciated!
Chris
+14Ok try this pattern instead: ^[A-Z]+[a-z]+$
Logic: checks that the first character is uppercase and the rest of the characters are lowercase.
True = Matches the pattern, which is good.
False = Does not match the patter, which is bad.
Again, be sure to test.
Also make sure to replace this static sample value with the dynamic values of the Name(s).
Note: You may have to do this step twice, once for first name, and once for last name.
Thanks Troy, that worked! I implemented the pattern code and then added a filter step to only continue if it’s true.
Chris
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