RE: [PHP] ereg checking if its only numbers
| From: | Maxim Maletsky \(PHPBeginner.com\) | Date: | Fri, 05 Oct 2001 01:43:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] ereg checking if its only numbers | ||
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With ereg it could be:
if(ereg(^[^[:digit:]]+$))
echo 'something else came through';
Untested though ...
Maxim Maletsky
www.PHPBeginner.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Dempsey [mailto:dempsejn@georgetown.edu]
> Sent: venerdì 5 ottobre 2001 3.42
> To: Chris Aitken; PHP General Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [PHP] ereg checking if its only numbers
>
>
> if(!preg_match("/^\d+$/",$string){
> echo "$string has something other than a number";
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Aitken [mailto:chris@ideal.net.au]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:34 PM
> To: PHP General Mailing List
> Subject: [PHP] ereg checking if its only numbers
>
>
>
> Ive been playing around with ereg for about half an hour and
> having no joy because I dont really understand the medhod
> behind it and how it all works. But what im trying to do is
> check to see if a 9 digit string is all numbers and nothing else
>
> $string1 = "123456789"
> $string2 = "123456abc"
>
>
> how would I check either string with an IF statement and make
> it continue on string 1 (ie, all numbers) and error on string
> 2 (not all numbers).
>
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Chris
>
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