RE: [PHP-WIN] Searching a string for everything but a-z and 0-9
| From: | Shrock, Court | Date: | Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:08:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] Searching a string for everything but a-z and 0-9 | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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preg_match('/[^a-z0-9]/i', $stringToSearch);
http://www.php.net/preg_match
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Babineau [mailto:matt@criticalcode.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:56 AM
> To: php-windows@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Searching a string for everything but a-z and 0-9
>
>
> Cold Fusion has RegEx to do this with. If I want to search a
> string looking for anything non 0-9 and non a-z what should I
> be looking at? Could I do:
>
> $EXPR = "non a-z, non numerical";
> strstr($SEARCH_STRING, $EXPR)
>
> I hope this makes sense, I am not sure what PHP calls this
> type of searching but in Cold Fusion it is called REGEX. Any
> suggestions on where I can look in the php documentation to
> read more about this?
>
> Matt Babineau
> MCWD / CCFD
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