Re: ereg.

At 17:26 18-12-02 +0100, Wico de Leeuw wrote:

^ is not in this case

Cancel that, i don't think thats true anyway if(!ereg("^[a-zA-ZåÅäÄöÖ]{4,20}\$", $_REQUEST['f_name'])) { Should work i think Gr,

Try if(!ereg("^([a-zA-ZåÅäÄöÖ]{4,20})\$", $_REQUEST['f_name'])) { Added the $ at the end else the could be more then 20 chars Greetz At 17:20 18-12-02 +0100, Anders Thoresson wrote:

What's wrong with the following regular expression? As far as I can se, only alphabetic characters including the special swedish ones, should be let through, but whatever character passed on in $_REQUEST['f_name'] passes the test?

        if(!ereg("(^[a-zA-ZåÅäÄöÖ]{4,20})", $_REQUEST['f_name'])) {
                error("Your first name should be between 4 and 20 alphabetic characters");
        }

The next one, used to check valid birthday dates, work. And I can't see where they differ!

        if(!ereg("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})", $_REQUEST['birthday']))

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