Re: regular expressions question

Adil Drissi wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to limit the user to a set of characters for example say i want my user to > enter any character between a and z (case insensitive). And if the user enters just one letter not > belonging to [a-z], this will not be accepted. > > I tried eregi('[a-z]', $fname) but this allows the user to enter abdg4512kdkdk for > example. > > Thank you > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. Keeping with your example, this works and doesn't allow an empty string (to allow empty, replace the + with *): eregi('^[a-z]+$', $fname) -or- ereg('^[A-Za-z]+$', $fname) But ctype_alpha() is a better multi-locale solution. -Shawn