Drew wrote:
> When I run the following script it returns String Okay! when it should say
> Invalid Characters Found. I've tried the script substituting $ for other
> characters, such as j, and it works just fine. What do I need to do?
>
> <?php
>
> $input = "johnon@company.$com";
>
> if (ereg("[$]", $input)) {
> die("Invalid Characters Found.");
> } elseif (ereg("[[:space:]]", $input)) {
> die("Whitespace found.");
> } else {
> echo "String okay!";
> }
>
> ?>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
Try changing the double quotes to single quotes i.e.
$input = 'johnon@company.$com';
php automatically attempts variable substitution on double-quoted
strings, but not single-quoted strings. Unless you know that you want
variable substitution, it's always safer and faster to use single-quotes.
George
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