Posted by jamen on 12/16/05 06:16

swpulitzer@yahoo.com wrote:

> please tell me why in the world this statement
>
> ereg( '[\w]{1,10}', 'abcdef' );
>
> always returns false? Thanks.
>

Because 'abcdef' neither contains a 'w' or '\' character

Try looking into the more powerful PCRE functions
I'll bet you'll find that \w works here

$ok = preg_match('#[\w]{1,10}#', "abcdef") == 1;

$ok should be true now

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