note 18764 added to function.ereg
| From: | jolyon at mways dot co dot uk | Date: | Mon, 04 Feb 2002 18:05:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 18764 added to function.ereg | ||
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And as typical, after writing that correction I found my correction isn't correct either!
UK Postcodes can have a zero as a number digit, so the [1-9] in the above should be changed to
[0-9].
For completeness the correct code is:
if(eregi('^[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1,2}[A-Z]? ?[0-9][A-Z]{2}$',$postcode))
{
print "A correct postcode!";
}
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