RE: [PHP] Space in regex

On 20 November 2006 23:12, Richard Lynch wrote: > . means *ANY* character, unless you escape it for PCRE > > \. is what PCRE needs. Not in a character class -- inside [], "." means ".". > So, in PHP, to get the \ down to PCRE, you want 2 \: > > Then there is the issue that '-' looks like a "range" character (A-Z > etc) so you should put it at the end. > > And there is no need to use the confusing (to me) ::xyz:: stuff... > > '/[A-Za-z0-9\\'\\.& _-]/' Except now you have a syntax error, as you've failed to notice (as did several others) that the \' in the original string is to escape the ' for PHP because the whole pattern string itself is single quoted. > > You can simplify this a bit to: > '/[A-Z0-9\\'\\.& _-]/i' So the syntactically-correct simple version of this is '/[A_Z0-9\'.&_-]/i'. Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm