Re: Regular Expression
| From: | John Holmes | Date: | Thu, 05 Aug 2004 03:05:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expression | ||
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Ng Hwee Hwee wrote:
Yeah, you should use them to ensure that the text is _only_ that code and not just contains it. Otherwise "asdf sinx1234-123-12 asdf" will pass. I just forgot. :) -- John Holmes php|architect - The magazine for PHP professionals - http://www.phparch.com(sin|hkg|bkk|jkt)x[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}thanx!!! it worked like a charm! =) just a question, i've tried adding a ^ to the front of your expressions and a $ to the end of your expression and it still worked.. but is it recommended? why didn't you use them? ^(sin|hkg|bkk|jkt)x[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}$