Re: Filters and sanitizing a regexp
| From: | Frank Stanovcak | Date: | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:47:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Filters and sanitizing a regexp | ||
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by the by I'm using filter_var($string, FITER_VALIDATE_REGEXP, blah blah
blah)
""Frank Stanovcak"" <blindspotpro@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:E6.61.19781.54CCBD84@pb1.pair.com...
> Is it possible to use the php filter function to sanitize a regular
> expression such as to return just the date part of a string that may be
> passed by an nonobservant user?
>
> "#\d\d/\d\d/\d\d\d\d#"
>
> input would be something like
> as02/05/2008df
>
> I want to use the filter to give me just the date should some oaf not
> leave the date field as just digits.
>