Re: Silly RegEx - Looks good to me

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, JB wrote: > 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:]]", $name)) { ^^ try if ($name=="" || eregi("[^a-z0-9\.[:space:]-]", $name)) { > print "ERROR, Please fill out this field, and use alphanumerical characters > only!"; > } > > Basically if the field is left empty or contains anything but alphanumeric hypen period or > space it should print the error message. > However, entering something like !@#$%^&*(+_* passes right through the regex.. no error > message is displayed. Whats the prob here? Thanks. -- Mathieu Poumeyrol