Re: Anyone good at regular expressions???

Steve, I think the easiest thing to do would be use trim() in conjunction with ereg_replace(): $new = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9 ]","",trim($old)); Hans On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, ssonne wrote: > I've been stumped for a few days at how to write one expression to do the > following...any help is appreciated. > I have a name and password form and I want to check that.... > only letters a-z and A-Z and numbers 0-9 are allowed, > and i'd like to allow the space character, but NOT at the beginning or end > of the string > > I've managed to get it to work, but not in one expression...had to use a > few, lol > > TIA > -Steve Sonne > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > Hans Anderson ~ me@hansanderson.com PO Box 426, Missoula, MT 59806 | PHP, Search Engines, SQL (800)397-9116 / (406)549-6524 | Databases, Flash Multimedia, http://www.hansanderson.com | Killer Audio Production, http://www.goofiness.com | Minty Fresh Breath.