[thelist] PHP- simple reg-ex has me stumped

[Howard Cheng]

The problem with this regex is that you have a period in there, which
matches any character, so it's actually equivalent to "^.+$". You'll want
to use
"^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\s]+$" instead.

At 04:58 AM 5/8/2002 -0400, Stephane Gosselin wrote:
>This regex: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\s.\-]+$ , wich has to be close to solving my
>problem works good on http://regxlib.com/RETester.aspx?regexp_id=63
>  BUT fails in my php script with the ereg function, also tried preg_match,
>no go. What s the prob?

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