Posted by Bosconian on 12/12/06 04:03

"Benjamin" <musiccomposition@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Bosconian wrote:
>> I need a way to validate the followng data with these restrictions:
>>
>> no leading and trailing white space
>> no trailing comma
>> double quoted numeric/alpha pairs
>> each pair on a separate line
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> "1","Peter"
>> "2","Paul"
>> "3","Mary"
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
> A regular expression would be great here. Try this:
> preg_match($data, "/^(\"\d+\",\"[A-Za-z]+\")+$/")
>

I tested your pattern, but it only recognizes the first line. I tried
(unsuccessfully) inserting a carriage return (\r) after the last quote:

preg_match($data, "/^(\"\d+\",\"[A-Za-z]+\"\r)+$/")

Any suggestions on how to make it work for multiple lines?

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