RE: [PHP] Regex

Jochem, Thanks, but this regex did not seem to work for me. At least, not on Windows. I will not be able to test on linux for a few hours. I spoke too soon yesterday, too. Control-Z is a problem on Windows, and not on Linux. However, on linux, control-D is a problem. Thanks, Jesse Hazen -----Original Message----- From: Jochem Maas [mailto:jochem@iamjochem.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:45 PM To: Hazen, Jesse, arvato digital services llc Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Regex Jesse.Hazen@arvatousa.com schreef: > Hi, > > > > Brand new to regex. So I have a cli which runs a regex on users input, > to make sure that only 0-9 and A-Z are accepted. It should strip > everything else. My problem is that when you press control-Z (on > Windows; I have not yet tested this on linux, and I will, but I would > like this to be compatible with both OS's) it loops infinitely saying > invalid data (because of the next method call, which decides what to do > based on your input). So, here is the input code. Is there a way I can > ensure that control commands are stripped, here? > there is, your control-Z is not a Z at all, and it's only printed as ^Z so you can see it ... it's actually a non-printing char. try this regexp for stripping control chars: /[\x00-\x1f]+/ > > > > > > > public function getSelection() { > > > > $choice = > $this->validateChoice(trim(strtoupper(fgets(STDIN)))); > > return $choice; > > > > } > > > > private function validateChoice($choice) { > > > > $choice = > ereg_replace("/[^0-9A-Z]/","",$choice); > > return $choice; > > > > } > > > > > > > > I have tried a ton of different things to try and fix this. Tried > /\c.|[^0-9A-Z]/, and many variations of \c and the [^0-9A-Z], to no > avail. I also tried using both preg_replace() as well as ereg_replace(). > I spent a lot of time on the regex section of the PHP manual, but I am > not finding anything. Any advise on how to accomplish this? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jesse Hazen > >