Re: Regex to grab a Windows Path from a String...

if(preg_match('/<img[^>]+src[ ]*=[ ]*(|"|\')[a-z]{1}:\\\/i', $string)) echo "local links used"; sumbry@sumbry.com wrote:

My regex skills are serious lacking and after scouring the net for relevant links I'm a bit stuck. I've got a textarea field where I pull user input from, and I'd like to search this entire field for a Windows Directory Path (ex. C:\Documents\Blah). Basically my users are allowed to specify HTML img tags in this textarea and I'd like to make sure that they don't reference any images that are on their local hard drive (which many of them are doing and then thinking the HTML that I generate from that actually works when it doesn't). Suggestions?