Posted by lorento on 02/19/07 02:29

I think you better use preg because faster than ereg. I heard that
ereg will be deprecated.

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On Feb 16, 6:08 pm, raj <r...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an ereg equivalent please.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Raj
>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:35:17 +0000, lorento wrote
> (in article <1171622115.950808.192...@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>):
>
> > $patterns = "/[^a-z0-9.-_]/i";
> > if (preg_match ($patterns, $word))
> > echo "not allowed";
> > else
> > echo "allowed";
>
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> > On Feb 16, 5:19 pm, raj <r...@nospam.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Please can someone help regarding providing a regular expression for
> >> entering
> >> a set of characters with letters, numbers, periods (.), hyphens (-), or
> >> underscores (_) only.
>
> >> I've got as far as this:
>
> >> $pattern="^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-])$";
>
> >> Thank you in advance.
>
> >> Kind regards,
>
> >> Raj (newbie)

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