note 18745 added to function.ereg
| From: | jolyon at mways dot co dot uk | 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!";
}
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