From 5af7916b20867434b62b0b135960951f0144ff0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Liebowitz <alex@alexliebowitz.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:00:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add lbry.nameIsValid()

---
 js/lbry.js | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/js/lbry.js b/js/lbry.js
index 832e5b900..63937a922 100644
--- a/js/lbry.js
+++ b/js/lbry.js
@@ -333,6 +333,11 @@ lbry.formatName = function(name) {
   return name;
 }
 
+lbry.nameIsValid = function(name, checkCase=true) {
+  const regexp = new RegExp('^[a-z0-9-]+$', checkCase ? '' : 'i');
+  return regexp.test(name);
+}
+
 lbry.loadJs = function(src, type, onload)
 {
   var lbryScriptTag = document.getElementById('lbry'),