Regular Expression
| From: | Dan Joseph | Date: | Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:38:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Regular Expression | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi Everyone,
I am currently using this piece of code to validate wether or not an
address has only letters, numbers, #, or - in it:
if (!ereg("^[A-Za-z0-9 #-]{1,20}", $_POST["address1"])) {
$error = 1;
$msg .= "Address must only contain letters, numbers, #, or -.<br>";
}
However, if I put any valid character as the first, and then any illegal
characters (!@$%, etc) after that, it passes it as ok. Can someone tell me
what I am doing wrong with the regex?
-Dan Joseph