Re: OT - Regular Expression

Roman Neuhauser wrote:

This shouldn't do too much backtracking, try it out: "*8*" => /^(?:\d*8\d*){4}$/ The {4} in there repeats the subpattern 4 times, rather than limiting it to 4 characters.

I really can't think of an elegant to do what you ask with regex - why limit yourself to regex anyway? It would be far simpler to just convert * to .* and check the length separately with strlen(), plus if you check the length first then you don't need regex at all if it fails. Arpad