Re: Regular Expressions
| From: | Zoltán Németh | Date: | Tue, 22 May 2007 11:11:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expressions | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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2007. 05. 22, kedd keltezéssel 03.35-kor Don Don ezt Ãrta:
> Hi all, am trying to run a regular expression to a list of user entered data on some forms.
>
> I've creating what i think is a matching pattern for each category as shown below:
>
> function validateEntry($regularExpression, $fieldValue)
> {
> if(preg_match($regularExpression, $fieldValue))
> {
> return "true";
> }
> else
> {
> return "false";
> }
> }
>
> i made a list of rules that are passed into the function above
>
> 1) [a-zA-Z][0-9] //allow any characters and numbers together anywhere within the text
> 2) [a-zA-Z] //allow only any charaters in the text
> 3) [0-9]{2} //allow only digits and they must be 2 in length
> 4) [a-zA-Z]{1} //allow only 1 character either uppercase or lowercase
>
the patterns seem ok, but you should enclose them within some delimiter
characters, e.g. "/[a-zA-Z][0-9]/" or something like that
greets
Zoltán Németh
>
> but each of these fail the validation when data is entered appropriately , seems iam getting
> something wrong.
>
>
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