[thelist] How to tell if a regular expression is valid?

[Bret Daniel]

Try this software... works pretty well


http://www.onlythebestfreeware.com/program.asp?program_id=172

-Bret

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lustig [mailto:jasonlustig at adelphia.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:59 PM
To: Thelist at Lists.Evolt.Org
Subject: [thelist] How to tell if a regular expression is valid?


So I'm working on a PHP script in which the user inputs a the search and 
replace sections of a regular expression in a form. For example, they 
might input "\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]" (without the quotes) as the search 
section and "<b>\1</b>" as the replace part, and then the PHP script 
puts them together in the preg_replace() function.

The only thing is, I want the script to check to see if the regular 
expressions they put in are valid, i.e. if they will work. I've done 
some searching on a regular expression to test if regular expressions 
are valid or something like that. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jason
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