Re: Regular expression problems

On Monday 14 April 2003 23:44, Lee P. Reilly wrote: > I am using a regular expression to try and weed out unwanted characters > in user input. What I am trying to do, is allow input to contain > alpha-numeric characters and some other standard characters e.g. "-", > "!", "&", etc. I am trying to accomplish this like so: > > else if > (eregi("^[a-zA-Z0-9!@#\$%^&\*\(\),/.//<>\?;':\"~`_\+\|\\-\\t\n\ > ]*$", $sessname)) > return true > > The problem is that this regular expresion returns FALSE if there is a > "-" character anywhere in the input. Anyone offer any pointers? If you're matching a range, the hyphen needs to be at the end. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep. */