Re: Eregi error

Roberto Mansfield wrote:

Myron Turner wrote:

M.Sokolewicz wrote:

    
           $pattern = '^[a-z0-9\!\_ \.- ,/]*$';
           if(!eregi($pattern, $input)){
          
the problem is that the hyphen is interpreted as regex range operator:
                                         [a-z0-9\!\_ \.- ,/]

Rewrite this as

                                   [a-z0-9\!\_ \. ,/-]

with the hyphen in the last position.

Or just escape the hyphen: \- The position won't matter.

Actually, I tried that, but it didn't work. It still saw the hyphen as an operator. The other thing about this is that the hyphen is followed by a space, so that it's asking for a range between the period and the space, which you can't do, since the space character has a lower ascii value than than the period. The space is more obvious in a monospaced font. -- _____________________ Myron Turner http://www.room535.org http://www.bstatzero.org http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser/