I believe I spoke too soon. If I use isset() then even if I leave the
field empty it still returns true. I am trying to view the documentation for
this function but php.net seems to be timing out now.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thank you. I did the following:
>
> if (isset($_POST[MI]) && (preg_match('/^[[:alpha:]]{1,1}$/', $_POST[MI]) == 0))
>
> and zero is caught.
>
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, CPT John W. Holmes wrote:
>
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > I use preg_match to validate the Middle Initial field of a form and so far
> > > it works, except yesterday a user submitted a "0" (zero) as a middle
> > > initial! My regexp is:
> > >
> > > if (!empty($_POST[MI]) && (preg_match('/^[[:alpha:]]{1,1}$/', $_POST[MI])
> > == 0))
> > >
> > > I tested it with 0-9 and my regexp catches every digit except 0.
> > Curious...
> >
> > empty("0") is going to be true. So, !empty("0") is going to be false, so you
> > won't "catch" the zero.
> >
> > ---John Holmes...
> >
> >
>
>
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