Re: eregi

"Returns the length of the initial segment of str1 which does not contain any of the characters in str2." I realise that i could see if this matches with the length of the entire word, and is there a way to get it to compare the word by the legal characters, because the amount of illegal symbols, including different language symbols (french for example) will be too high for me to list. Tim "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0110011533350.1241-100000@rasmus.php.net... > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >