RE: [PHP] UK Postcode Reg Exp

Try this one: $postcode2 = strtoupper(str_replace(chr(32),'',$postcode)); $pc_suffix = substr($postcode2,-3,3); $pc_prefix = substr($postcode2,0,(strlen($postcode2)-3)); if (!preg_match('/(^[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1,2}|^[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1}[A-Z]{1})$/',$pc_prefix) && !preg_match('/^[0-9]{1}[ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}$/',$pc_suffix)) echo("Invalid postcode!"); It seems to have been working nicely on all variants put through it over the past few months! James ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I like nonsense ~ it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. ~ Theodor S. Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: James Nunnerley [mailto:webmaster@jnsolutions.co.uk] Sent: 17 February 2004 16:59 To: 'Shaun'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] UK Postcode Reg Exp Hi Shaun, Not that I know of - although I have looked at various things like this myself. Would you be interested in a small open source project on this subject? I see you instigated the discussion on this earlier today. It might be something worth putting on PEAR, and somehow linking it with the Royal Mail Address search - assuming we can get through their login process! Any thoughts? James webmaster@jnsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com] Sent: 17 February 2004 16:55 To: Shaun; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] UK Postcode Reg Exp [snip] Has anyone written a regular expression for validating a UK Postcode? [/snip] Nope, but I did write a love note to a French woman. Sorry, couldn't resist. :) I'll be here all week. Can you provide several examples and perhaps we could formulate one? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php