Re: ereg problem
| From: | Charlie Llewellin | Date: | Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:59:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ereg problem | ||
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the - needs to be immediately after the [ to include that character.
Otherwise it is a range indicator.
Charlie
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From: "CC Zona" <cczona@nospam.invalid>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg problem
> In article <80B97DE95AEED311BA580050047FE98430D63F@mail.systech.com>,
> janetv@systech.com (Janet Valade) wrote:
>
> > if (!ereg("^[0-9\-\+\.\ \)\(]{10,}$",$value)) {
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why this works for every character except the -. It
> > doesn't see the hyphen as a valid part of the phone number, even though
it
> > recognizes the other characters, e.g. + or .
>
> Try:
> if (!ereg("^[0-9+. )(-]{10,}$",$value))
>
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> CC
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