Posted by raj on 02/16/07 12:06

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:59:27 +0000, Captain Paralytic wrote
(in article <1171627167.523089.186830@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>):

> 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?
>

It's for 2 reasons

1. Be consistent throughout the site
2. I will disable preg_match and some other unused functions.

Any help with providing the ereg answer would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Raj

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