Posted by raj on 02/16/07 11:08

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 <1171622115.950808.192540@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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