Re: Reg Ex
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:03:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reg Ex | ||
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Eric Butera schreef:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Warren Windvogel
> <wwindvogel@iburst.co.za> wrote:
>> Eric Butera wrote:
>>> Who says every file will have an extension? Who says they're all .+3
>>> chars? When I first started php I tried that and it failed in a lot
>>> of places.
>> I've also run into that problem in the past. The way that I could work
>> around all these issues was to document naming conventions for the files and
>> validate these before using the regex to obtain the necessary information.
>>
>> Regards
>> Warren
>>
>
> ...or you could just use pathinfo and be done with it. I work for
> clients. Clients shouldn't have to read a faq to upload a file.
no. they generally believe that when they upload a CSV file in a field
very clearly marked "upload your FLASH file here" things should just work :-)
>