Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 05/03/05 19:23

* Rory Browne <rory.browne@gmail.com>:
> > You mite try this. I know that this work with perl.
> >
> > =~ m/^[0-9][A-Z][a-z]{2-3} \.[0-9]+$/
>
> I'm not sure what the initial m does(I'm not a perl person),

The 'm' is an optional flag indicating that a 'match' regexp (versus a
substitution or transliteration) follows. It's typically only necessary
in perl if using delimiters other than / around the regexp.

(The person who posted that should have written it as PHP to avoid
confusion: preg_match('/^[0-9][A-Z][a-z]{2-3} \.[0-9]+$/', $string);)

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