Re: Regular Expression
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Tue, 05 Aug 2003 20:00:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expression | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 04:19, Ralph Guzman wrote:
> Been working on this one for a while but can't get it working properly.
> I need a regular expression to match if address is
>
> 1. PO Box
> 2. P.O. Box
> 3. P.O.Box
>
> I'm using /i to make this case insensitive.
>
> I got it working with 1 & 2, but it's still not matching 3. Any
> suggestions?
>
> if(preg_match( "/p[\.]o\.* +box/i", trim($_POST['address'])){
> echo "Address is P.O. BOX";
> }
Try:
"/p\.?o\.?( )?box/i"
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