Just a question, is there any character outside this group, you have
put the whole characters there.
just a note: preg_match is not a multi-byte function.
anyway to match your set of characters you can use the regex
/^[\w\s\$\(\)\*\+\-\.\?\[\]\{\}\\\^\N{exclamation-mark}\N{quotation-mark}\N{number-sign}\N{percent-sign}\N{ampersand}\N{apostrophe}\N{comma}\N{slash}\N{colon}\N{semicolon}\N{less-than-sign}\N{equals-sign}\N{greater-than-sign}\N{commercial-at}\N{circumflex}\N{grave-accent}\N{vertical-line}]*$/
Note: regex expects this to be his final input, so you have to escape
it for php, i.e. it would be:
$regex =
'/^[\\w\\s\\$\\(\\)\\*\\+\\-\\.\\?\\[\\]\\{\\}\\\\\\^\\N{exclamation-mark}\\N{quotation-mark}\\N{number-sign}\\N{percent-sign}\\N{ampersand}\\N{apostrophe}\\N{comma}\\N{slash}\\N{colon}\\N{semicolon}\\N{less-than-sign}\\N{equals-sign}\\N{greater-than-sign}\\N{commercial-at}\\N{circumflex}\\N{grave-accent}\\N{vertical-line}]*$/';
this regex matches strings who only contains the chars you want. it
would be false if a string contained any character outside your set
On 5/28/07, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm writing a code that needs to search for certain characters. Thought of
> doing it using regular expressions, only problem is i'm not good in using
> them. So can somebody help?
>
> I need to search if a string contains any character that isn't within the
> following list:
> 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,./?;:\'\"[]{}\\|[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]&*()-=_+<>\r\n`~
> (and space)
>
> I'm using php's preg_match, which, as the documentation says here, uses
> perl syntax in regular expressions (there are more than one??).
>
> Thanx for the help in advance.
> --
> Al-Faisal El-Dajani
> Phone: +962-7-77 799 781
> P.O Box: 140056
> 11814 Amman, Jordan
> >
>
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