Re: help on regex
| From: | Mark Harwood | Date: | Fri, 04 Oct 2002 12:32:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: help on regex | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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> I am trying to learn regex and could need some help.
>
> There are 2 function I would need. 1 which returns false if the data does
> contain anything else than numbers or fullstops
>
> I tryed this:
> function validate_phone ($phone) {
> return (ereg('^[0-9][:punct:]', $phone));
> }
try using ^[0-9.]*$
> The next one is to return fals if the data does not contain a number
inside
> the string ("street 893" would be valid)
> I tryed this:
> function validate_street ($street) {
> return (ereg('^[0-9]', $street));
> }
try using just [0-9]