Re: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem...

2002-11-22 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 13:38 22.11.2002, @ Nilaab spoke out and said: [snip] Ok, I know this is easy for most of you, and believe me I've been searching and trying to learn all about regular expressions, but I can't seem figure out how to allow addition of spaces between

RE: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem...

2002-11-22 Thread @ Nilaab
: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem... At 13:38 22.11.2002, @ Nilaab spoke out and said: [snip] Ok, I know this is easy for most of you, and believe me I've been searching and trying to learn all about regular expressions, but I can't seem figure out how

RE: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem...

2002-11-22 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 21:59 22.11.2002, @ Nilaab said: [snip] Thanks so much!!! It works. I didn't know I could also place extra characters inside the brackets to specify what I want. :) [snip] The square brackets simply form a group

RE: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem...

2002-11-22 Thread @ Nilaab
Thanks again Ernest! This will be extremely helpful to me in the near future. - Nilaab -Original Message- From: Ernest E Vogelsinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 3:23 PM To: @ Nilaab Cc: Php-General Subject: RE: [PHP] Simple RegExp Problem... At 21

Re: [PHP] Simple regexp

2002-08-29 Thread Todd Pasley
Hi, you would be better off with preg_match, as its a little quicker apparently. try: preg_match(/^[:0-9a-f]*$/i,$string) or change the * to a + to ensure $string is not null the main problems you had: - not ensuring that only those characters are found by using ^ and $ - not allowing

RE: [PHP] Simple regexp

2002-08-29 Thread Martin Towell
try this ereg(^[a-zA-Z0-9:]*$,$string) all your's is doing is looking for any char in $string that's a-z or A-Z or 0-9 or : instead of all chars, from start to end, being them -Original Message- From: Adam Alkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:20 PM To: PHP

RE: [PHP] simple regexp question - validating new line chars

2001-12-08 Thread Jack Dempsey
that's because you're testing to see if '\n' is \n...single quotes mean: interpret the text between literally, so '\n' is a backslash followed by n...doulbe quotes mean: interpolate the value, so \n becomes a newline... -Original Message- From: Krzysztof Jarecki [mailto:[EMAIL