Re: eregi
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Mon, 01 Oct 2001 22:34:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: eregi | ||
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Huh? You better read that documentation page again. You only need to
list the illegal symbols. And what do you mean by length?
-Rasmus
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
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