On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 09:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Thanks for this answer.
>
> But how can i test if i actually have numbers AND letters ?
preg_match('/([A-Za-z].*[\d]|[\d].*[A-Za-z]/', $string);
Untested, but in theory should work.
> On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 08:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>
>> I'm new with RegEx and I would like to use them to validate my forms
>> entries submitted to the server.
>>
>> My question is how can I verify with the regex that a string is
>> - at least 7 chars
>> - contains Chars and Nums
>> - may contains some special chars (ex : % ! : ; , )but not in first or
>> last
>> position .
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> I'm assuming that by Chars you mean uppercase/lowercase letters?
> Numbers are characters too, I thought.
>
> preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9%!:;,]{5,}[A-Za-z0-9]$/', $string);
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> The above regex will only match a string that begins with A-Z or a-z or
> 0-9, then any number of characters that are in the middle character
> class, then a final A-Z or a-z or 0-9.
>
> I think. Try it out, that's untested.
>
>
> Erik
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