Posted by Captain Paralytic on 02/16/07 12:15

On 16 Feb, 12:06, raj <r...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:59:27 +0000, Captain Paralytic wrote
> (in article <1171627167.523089.186...@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>):
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> > On 16 Feb, 11:55, raj <r...@nospam.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
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> >> I have to repost this to restate the question. No disrespect to the original
> >> reply.
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> >> Please can someone help regarding providing a regular expression for
> >> entering
> >> a set of characters with letters, numbers, periods (.), hyphens (-), or
> >> underscores (_) only.
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> >> I need to do this using ereg
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> >> I've got as far as this but it doesn't quite work:
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> >> $pattern="^([a-z0-9.-_]{0,30})$";
> >> if(ereg($pattern,$_SESSION['id']))
> >> ...
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> >> Thank you in advance.
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> >> Kind regards,
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> >> Raj (newbie)
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> > As a matter of interest, why does it have to be done using ereg rather
> > than say, preg_match?
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> It's for 2 reasons
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> 1. Be consistent throughout the site
> 2. I will disable preg_match and some other unused functions.
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> Any help with providing the ereg answer would be greatly appreciated.
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> Kind regards,
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> Raj- Hide quoted text -
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Sheesh, what terrible reasons. the php manual itself advises the use
of perg_match over ereg for efficiency.

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