Re: Reg Ex
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:05:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reg Ex | ||
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
> 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 :-)
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