Re: Re: Question to eregi Syntax

Just for information preg_match is 4-5 times more faster. regards david Le Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:26:32 +0200, M. Sokolewicz <tularis@php.net> a écrit:

Philip Hallstrom wrote:

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"

Actually, in the above case it doesn't... from the URL referenced...

     For example, the character class [aeiou] matches any lower case vowel,
    while [^aeiou] matches any character that is not a lower case vowel.
 If the ^ is outside of the []'s then it matches the start of the string...

-philip

hey, you're right ;) must've missed the opening [ there. Well spotted!