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Posted by "M. Sokolewicz" on 07/07/05 17:45
janbro wrote:
> Hi List,
> my research hasn't turned anything useful up.
> Probably 'cause I don't have enough info.
> I've been playing around with the ereg function.
> What I was wondering is what is the ^ for like
> in the below example?
> ereg('[^[:space:]a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{1,}', $name)
>
> thx
> janbro
it denotes the "start of the string"
This might help (although it's for PCRE syntax, the POSIX (ereg(i))
syntax is very similair):
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php
This is the manpage for the POSIX syntax: (might be a bit harder to read
if you're just starting)
http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=7&topic=regex
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