how do i write a regular expression to validate user input to ensure that the user input contains 1 digit, a space and any number of letters.

Although it often sounds like a regex is your solution, it's not always the case. Simply counting the required characters/digits is much simpler.

how do i that? i'm lost and have no where to start

You can use a loop, so you check each letter and keep administration of what passes are valid, invalid characters. You can use strpos to check.

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