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Posted by "M. Sokolewicz" on 07/07/05 20:26
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>> 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"
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>
> Actually, in the above case it doesn't... from the URL referenced...
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> For example, the character class [aeiou] matches any lower case vowel,
> while [^aeiou] matches any character that is not a lower case vowel.
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> If the ^ is outside of the []'s then it matches the start of the string...
>
> -philip
hey,
you're right ;) must've missed the opening [ there.
Well spotted!
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