Re: eregi
| From: | Tim Ballantine | Date: | Mon, 01 Oct 2001 22:33:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: eregi | ||
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Is there anything which doesnt use length? And something like eregi, because
it would be infeasible to list all of the symbols that a user could use, to
compare a string by.
Tim
"Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0110011523560.1241-100000@rasmus.php.net...
> See php.net/strcspn
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Could anyone tell me how to eregi a word, to see if it only contains
either
> > numbers, letters, the "_" and the "-", so that any other symbol with
call it
> > invalid. For example, theres the word "expressio_n" that will be valid,
but
> > the word "express%^$-n" will be invalid.
> >
> > Thankyou,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
>