Re: ereg.

Instead of: (!ereg("^([a-zA-ZåÅäÄöÖ]{4,20})\$", $_REQUEST['f_name'])) Try: (!ereg("^[a-zA-ZåÅäÄöÖ]{4,20}$", $_REQUEST['f_name'])) (You don't need the brackets unless you're wanting to get the output of the matches, which in this case, it doesn't look as though you do).... Better still: (!preg_match("!^[a-zåÅäÄöÖ]{4,20}$!is", $_REQUEST['f_name'])) James "1lt John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote in message news:002301c2a6b3$a5a695f0$a629089b@TBHHCCDR... > ^ is only NOT when it's the first character within brackets, [ and ]. Also, > don't escape the $ at the end if you really want it to match the end of the > string. Right now your regular expression is matching a literal dollar sign. > > As for the original question, it looks correct, providing you can have those > swedish characters in the brackets. What if you just simplify things and > make your ereg look to match a single one of those swedish chacters? Will it > validate correctly if that's all you pass? Play with taking them in and out > and see what works. > > ---John Holmes... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wico de Leeuw" <wico-php-general@newcorps.biz> > To: "Anders Thoresson" <listor@thoresson.net>; > <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:26 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg. > > > ^ is not in this case > 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'])) > > > >Br, > > > > Anders > > > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >