Re: Using a perl regex
| From: | Verdon Vaillancourt | Date: | Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:17:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Using a perl regex | ||
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I thought I might have tried that and just did again.
I receive the error;
Warning : Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in
/server/path/to/functions.php on line xxxx
I'm not sure if this means I have to escape something in the pattern, but
will look further.
Cheers,
Verdon
On 2/11/04 12:12 PM, "Richard Davey" <rich@launchcode.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello Verdon,
>
> Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 5:09:22 PM, you wrote:
>
> VV> I am trying to use a perl regular expression to validate a form field
> where
>
> VV>
> (!ereg("20\d{2}(-|\/)((0[1-9])|(1[0-2]))(-|\/)((0[1-9])|([1-2][0-9])|(3[0-1]
>
> Surely you should be using preg_match() (i.e. a perl syntax reg exp) ?