Re: Regex help

trlists@clayst.com wrote on 01/28/2005 03:19:14 PM: > On 28 Jan 2005 kjohnson@zootweb.com wrote: > > > I need a validation regex that will "pass" a string. The string can be no > > longer than some maximum length, and it can contain any characters except > > two consecutive ampersands (&) anywhere in the string. > > This is an example of something that is easier to do (and probably > faster) without using a regexp: > > if ((strlen($str) <= $maxlen) && (strstr($str, '&&') === > FALSE)) > <str is valid> > else > <str is not valid> > > -- > Tom Thanks, Tom. I agree, but not an option at this time - other parts of the design require this to be a regex. Kirk