Re: Ereg ()

Thanks for this answer. But how can i test if i actually have numbers AND letters ? Laurent Drouet Erik Price <pricee@hhbrow To: DrouetL@ldnegoce.com n.com> cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Ereg () 16/04/02 15:44 On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 08:49 AM, DrouetL@ldnegoce.com wrote: > > I'm new with RegEx and I would like to use them to validate my forms > entries submitted to the server. > > My question is how can I verify with the regex that a string is > - at least 7 chars > - contains Chars and Nums > - may contains some special chars (ex : % ! : ; , )but not in first or > last > position . I'm assuming that by Chars you mean uppercase/lowercase letters? Numbers are characters too, I thought. preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9%!:;,]{5,}[A-Za-z0-9]$/', $string); The above regex will only match a string that begins with A-Z or a-z or 0-9, then any number of characters that are in the middle character class, then a final A-Z or a-z or 0-9. I think. Try it out, that's untested. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com