Re: Silly RegEx - Looks good to me
| From: | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Date: | Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:10:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Silly RegEx - Looks good to me | ||
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, JB wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Here's an easy one for someone to field. I do these regex validations in just about every
> piece of code I write with forms, so I'm a little baffeled why it doesn't work, cus it
> looks good to me.
>
> if ($name=="" || eregi("[^a-z0-9\.-][[:space:]]", $name)) {
The problem is here ^^
> print "ERROR, Please fill out this field, and use alphanumerical characters
> only!";
> }
>
> Basically if the field is left empty or contains anything but alphanumeric hypen period or
> space it should print the error message.
> However, entering something like !@#$%^&*(+_* passes right through the regex.. no error
> message is displayed. Whats the prob here? Thanks.
>
> Jason
>
What you want is:
eregi("[^a-z0-9\.-[:space:]]", $name)
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