Re: preg, patern quantifier limit

* Thus wrote Yann Larrivee (yannl@istop.com): > Hi, i did a standard preg [A-Za-z0-9]{1,65536} > > What i am simply trying to do is to validate the a form that will insert > into my TEXT database field. So i just want to prevent a larger insert > then expected. > > > PHP trows me this error "preg_match(): Compilation failed: number too > big in {} quantifier at offset 19 ..." > > > So it appears that quantifiers are limited. Anybody knows what that > limit is ? It looks like it should be 65535, which makes more sense because that is the unsigned word boundry. if you inisist on having a 65536 limit use strlen with the preg if (strlen($str) <= 65536 && preg_match('/[A-Za-z0-9]+/', $str)) { HTH, Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."