RE: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem...

Thanks so much!!! It works. I didn't know I could also place extra characters inside the brackets to specify what I want. :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Ernest E Vogelsinger [mailto:ernest@vogelsinger.at] > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:19 AM > To: @ Nilaab > Cc: Php-General > Subject: Re: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem... > > > At 13:38 22.11.2002, @ Nilaab spoke out and said: > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > >Ok, I know this is easy for most of you, and believe me I've > been searching > >and trying to learn all about regular expressions, but I can't > seem figure > >out how to allow addition of spaces between characters. > > > >$text = "Here is some text"; > > > >Here, I want to be able to match the alpha characters as well as > the spaces > >in between each word. So far I have: > > > >preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z]+$/", $text); > > > >But that only matches a single word without spaces. I would like > to try to > >stay away from ereg and use preg_match instead because I heard > preg_match is > >faster. ereg() has a way to match spaces by specifying [[:space:]], but I > >didn't get that solution to work either. How do I match $text to return > >true? > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > use > preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z\s]+$/', $text); > > \s - any [:space:] > \S - anything not [:space:] > > > -- > >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger > (\) ICQ #13394035 > ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ >