Re: Question to eregi Syntax

thx, that's what I've figured. but looking for ^ with any search engine won't give you anything useful. thx JaNbro M. Sokolewicz schrieb:

janbro wrote:

Hi List, my research hasn't turned anything useful up. Probably 'cause I don't have enough info. I've been playing around with the ereg function. What I was wondering is what is the ^ for like in the below example?

    ereg('[^[:space:]a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{1,}', $name)

thx janbro

it denotes the "start of the string" This might help (although it's for PCRE syntax, the POSIX (ereg(i)) syntax is very similair): http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php This is the manpage for the POSIX syntax: (might be a bit harder to read if you're just starting) http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=7&topic=regex