Jeff Oien wrote:
> I want to check if a variable contains a price, like
> $19.99
> It definitely would be a dollar sign, two integers a dot and
> two integers. Here is what I tried which doesn't work.
>
> if (ereg("\$([0-9]{2}).([0-9]{2})", $Price))
> or
> if (ereg("\$([0-9]{2})\.([0-9]{2})", $Price))
>
> Thanks.
> Jeff Oien
>
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I am not an expert on PHP but I have been programming in Perl for four
years so I can tell you what I would use in Perl and you can see if that
works in PHP. (I am almost sure they would be the same...)
/\$\d\d\.\d\d\.d/
It looks to me like you are forgetting to escape your period making the
interpreter think it is "any character" rather than a literal period. I am
not sure what the {2} is because I have never used that. Does that part of
it really work that way?
Good luck, hope that helps.
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