Since you are not actually searching for a pattern, and you have a
defined namespace. you can put your namespace in an array, and do a
simple loop on it mtchung with in_array function for each character.
Thats a very simple way.
Remember to use mbstring functions :)
On 5/29/07, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I might get arabic and/or chinese characters, and they would both be treated
> in the same manner. So i thought, searching for the absence of english is
> easier than searching for the presence of arabic or chinese.
>
> Since preg_match isn't multi-byte safe, what other function would you
> recommend?
>
>
> On 5/28/07, Ala'a Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ala'a A. Ibrahim
> > http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
> Al-Faisal El-Dajani
> Phone: +962-7-77 799 781
> P.O Box: 140056
> 11814 Amman, Jordan
> >
>
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