Re: Quick RegEx Question

Jeff Oien wrote: > I want to check if a variable contains a price, like > $19.99 > It definitely would be a dollar sign, two integers a dot and > two integers. Here is what I tried which doesn't work. > > if (ereg("\$([0-9]{2}).([0-9]{2})", $Price)) > or > if (ereg("\$([0-9]{2})\.([0-9]{2})", $Price)) > > Thanks. > Jeff Oien > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net I am not an expert on PHP but I have been programming in Perl for four years so I can tell you what I would use in Perl and you can see if that works in PHP. (I am almost sure they would be the same...) /\$\d\d\.\d\d\.d/ It looks to me like you are forgetting to escape your period making the interpreter think it is "any character" rather than a literal period. I am not sure what the {2} is because I have never used that. Does that part of it really work that way? Good luck, hope that helps. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com