Posted by Captain Paralytic on 02/16/07 11:59

On 16 Feb, 11:55, raj <r...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to repost this to restate the question. No disrespect to the original
> reply.
>
> Please can someone help regarding providing a regular expression for entering
> a set of characters with letters, numbers, periods (.), hyphens (-), or
> underscores (_) only.
>
> I need to do this using ereg
>
> I've got as far as this but it doesn't quite work:
>
> $pattern="^([a-z0-9.-_]{0,30})$";
> if(ereg($pattern,$_SESSION['id']))
> ...
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Raj (newbie)

As a matter of interest, why does it have to be done using ereg rather
than say, preg_match?

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