Re: regex newbie question
| From: | 1LT John W. Holmes | Date: | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:16:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: regex newbie question | ||
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> Hoping someone can help with something probably quite simple
>
> I am using regex to validate user input this way:
>
> if (ereg ("^[a-zA-Z0-9\s]+$", $field)) {
> $field_validate = TRUE;
> }
>
> I am trying to get the expression to accept upper or lower case letters
and
> numbers and also allow spaces. It works when I test the expression at
> http://regexlib.com/RETester.aspx but I can't seem to get
> it to work with
> expressions with white space between words or numbers. Anyone have an
easy
> fix?
Replace the \s with just a regular space character.
^[a-zA-Z0-9 ]$
---John Holmes...