Posted by Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com on 02/23/05 10:48

> or if you aren't into regex (which I find confusing and still am trying
> to learn):

Read the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" or first 300 pages of it - trust
me, it is worth the labour (personal experience)!



On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:44, Ligaya Turmelle wrote:
>
> if ((strlen(trim($string)) <=6) && ctype_alpha(trim($string)))
> { echo 'good'; }
> else
> { echo 'bad'; }
>
> John Holmes wrote:
> > Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> >> How can I check that a string is no more than 6 characters long and
> >> only contains alpha characters (no numbers, spaces, periods, hyphens,
> >> or anything else, just letters.)
> >
> > if(preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z]{0,6}$/',$string))
> > { echo 'good'; }
> > else
> > { echo 'bad'; }
> >
> > Change to {1,6} if you want to ensure the string isn't empty.

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