by the by I'm using filter_var($string, FITER_VALIDATE_REGEXP, blah blah 
blah)


""Frank Stanovcak"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Is it possible to use the php filter function to sanitize a regular 
> expression such as to return just the date part of a string that may be 
> passed by an nonobservant user?
>
> "#\d\d/\d\d/\d\d\d\d#"
>
> input would be something like
> as02/05/2008df
>
> I want to use the filter to give me just the date should some oaf not 
> leave the date field as just digits.
> 



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