[thelist] PHP: is_numeric... that's the question...

[Tris]

Gotcha...
I'm rather enjoying this.. I've got 19 functions to write, and I've
allready turned some 10+ liners into 1 line!!!
learning is fun.!!

anyhoo, next I wanna check to see if a usercode is only numeric, and
1-8 characters long..

I tried this:
return preg_match("/\d{1,8}/", is_numeric($usercode));
but is there a way in regular expretions to exclude characters, so I
can say JUST return true if it's ONLY numbers...

I tried:
return preg_match("[^a-zA-Z][0-9]{1,8}", $usercode);
But it was accepted if there were any numbers in teh text.. that's bad!

thoughts?


On 18/01/07, Max Schwanekamp <lists at neptunewebworks.com> wrote:
> Tris wrote:
> > I went here:
> > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3
> > but could find no reference to the ' ! ' you have at the start and end
> > of your $pattern string...
> > can you let me know what they do..?
>
> The ! is just the regex pattern delimiter.  AFAIK it can be any regular
> character.  Most PHP coders use / or ! or #.  See the first paragraph on
> the PCRE page:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
>
> HTH!
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