Re: eregi

Well, either you need to know the valid chars or the invalid ones. Make up your mind and use strspn() or strcspn() appropriately. -Rasmus On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote: > "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 > > > ¶¸g > > > *u’Áq¡sNÂInews: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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >