Re: Re: Regular Expressions?

In article <20010420055444.15906.qmail@rinjani.jetcoms.net>, yanto@jetcoms.net ("yanto") wrote: > (eregi("([0-9][a-z][A-Z]\.[0-9][a-z][A-Z]", $myArray[x])) > > and don't use character '^' in front of the pattern. (Note that since the parentheses are unbalanced, the above will thorw a parse error.) Since it's eregi, you don't need both [a-z] and [A-Z]. And by putting the digits and letters in separate character classes, the pattern can only match strings with one digit followed by two letters, a dot, another digit, and more more letters. IOW: 1ab.2Cd 3zY.9MX (etc.) Since the goal is to match like this... > I want to match any of the following: > > 1.1 or a.a > > or 1111.1111 or aaaa.aaaa <-- any number of digits (0-9) or alpha (a-z) > on either side of the dot. ...try something more like this.. eregi("[0-9a-z]+\.[0-9a-z]+", $myArray[x]) ...which would match as shown in the samples, where a single matched character on either side of the decimal is repeating. (change the plus signs to asterisks if "any" number of letters/digits can include no letters/digits.) -- CC