note 18745 added to function.ereg

From: Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:43:28 +0000
Subject: note 18745 added to function.ereg
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The postcode example listed here isn't correct - it won't correctly detect Inner London postcodes (and others?) with an extra letter, eg: EC1M 3AA I've also ammended it so that the space is optional: if(eregi('^[A-Z]{1,2}[1-9]{1,2}[A-Z]? ?[1-9][A-Z]{2}$',$postcode)) { print "You have a valid postcode!"; } -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+18745 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+18745 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+18745

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