Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 10/10/87 11:13

>>> I wanted to create a regex that force a PHP form text field to meet the
>>> following requirements:
>>>
>>> a. Must contain an 1 uppercase letter. [A-Z]
>>>
>>> b. Must contain 1 digit. [0-9]
>>>
>>> c. Must be a minimum of 7 characters in length. {7}
>>>
>>
>> if ( ereg("[A-Z0-9]", $field) && strlen($field) >= 7 ) {
>> print("We have a winner!");
>> }
> nope, a username like "1234567" would go trough ok. Which isn't what he
> wanted

that's what I get for thinking too fast :)

Seems like you should be able to do then um... "([A-Z]|[0-9])" as your
regexp (check on escaping the ()'s or not. I can never remember)

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