Re: scanning for non alpha characters
| From: | CJ | Date: | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:41:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: scanning for non alpha characters | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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Did check them, it suggested that it was an optional library! I'll look
into ereg_replace.
Thanks
CJ
"Coert Metz" <coert@metzonline.nl> wrote in message
news:3DD3C27A.9070504@metzonline.nl...
> PHP also supports regular expressions
> Check the manual at php.net for more information
> (ereg_replace a.s.o)
>
> Coert
>
> Cj wrote:
> > I want to scan the variables passed from teh url of my script for non
alpha
> > characters. The variables should only consist of a-z A-Z 0-9 and
spaces,
> > full stops and commas (Basically I don't want scripts to be passed via
the
> > variable to the server)
> >
> > I've used perl a long time ago and its regular expressions seemed ideal
for
> > this kind of thing. Can enybody suggest a scrip to remove unwanted
> > characters from my variable?
> >
> >
>