Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 01/17/05 12:27

Zouari Fourat wrote:
> Hello !
> My user can input values like this :
>
> 15.2
> 10-5
> 10 0
> 0x5
> 005
> 00
>
> to be clear, i must extract two values from each line, each value is
> between 1 and 20 and seaparated with a non numeric caracter, so with
> lines 1,2,3 and 4 i will get :
>
> Array([0]=>15, [1]=>2);
> Array([0]=>10, [1]=>5);
> Array([0]=>10, [1]=>0);
> Array([0]=>0, [1]=>5);
>
> and for other lines i will label them as erronus entries...
>
> how can i do it intelligently :)
>

yes.

if(!preg_match('/^([0-9]+)[^0-9]+([0-9]+)$/', $input, $m)) {
$m = 'error';
}

print_r($m);

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