[thelist] [regexp] I'm lost
Paul Bennett
paul at teltest.com
Thu Jul 17 22:29:06 CDT 2003
Paul Cowan wrote:
>
> Paul Bennett wrote:
>
>> am I even close? (Results attest otherwise)
>
>
> Something like this should work:
> ^[_a-zA-Z0-9 ()\-]+$
> You may or may not need to escape the parentheses -- replace () with
> \(\) -- depending on the regexp engine that PHP uses.
>
> Hope this helps,
Thanks Paul after a bit of fudging, the following function seems to be
working (I have to allow '$' as the company we are developing for
insists on having text and dollar amounts in their 'fees' component)
# now check for alpha, numeric, spaces, hyphens, dollar signs,
underscores and brackets
if(eregi('^[_\.\,a-zA-Z0-9 ()$-]+$', $value))
{$response["alphaNumSpecial"] = true;}
else
{$response["alphaNumSpecial"] = false;}
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Teltest Electronic Design
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