Re: Validation class method (ssn)

Brent, here is your function (which is really slick) except it sets the values into an array. -timmyg $document = implode('', file('http://www.ssa.gov/foia/highgroup.htm')); $search = array ("'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si", // Strip out javascript

                 "'<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>'si",           // Strip out html tags
                 "'([\r\n])[\s]+'",                 // Strip out white space
                 "'&#(\d+);'e");                    // evaluate as php

$replace = array ("",

                  "",
                  "\\1",
                  "chr(\\1)");

$text = explode("\n", str_replace ('*','', preg_replace ($search, $replace, $document))); for ($a = 0; $a < count($text) ; $a++) {

    $line = trim($text[$a]);
    if ((strlen($line) == 3) && is_numeric($line)) {
        $out[$line] = trim($text[$a+1]);
        $a++;
    }; // end if

}; // end for loop print_r($out); At 02:48 PM 6/6/2002 -0500, Brent wrote:

Here is a script to convert the list of high SSN numbers from the SSA website into a PHP array. Well, it actually generates the code for a PHP array, which could be loaded by a validation function very quickly. I'm working on the validator now. <?php

        $document = implode('', file('http://www.ssa.gov/foia/highgroup.htm'));

        $search = array ("'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si",  // Strip out javascript
                        "'<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>'si",           // Strip out html tags
                        "'([\r\n])[\s]+'",                 // Strip out white space
                        "'&#(\d+);'e");                    // evaluate as php

        $replace = array ("",
                          "",
                          "\\1",
                          "chr(\\1)");

        $text = explode("\n", str_replace ('*','', preg_replace ($search, $replace, $document)));

        $buffer = '<?php $valid_ssn_list=array(';
        foreach ($text as $line)
        {
                $line = trim($line);
                if ((strlen($line) == 3) && is_numeric($line)) {
                        $buffer .= "$line=>";
                } elseif ((strlen($line) == 2) && is_numeric($line)) {
                        $buffer .= "$line,";
                }
        }

        $buffer .= '); ?>';

        print ($buffer);

?>