ereg matching chars at end of string

[Anon]

Hi, in JavaScript you can use the $ operator to denote that the char class before it will only match at the end of the line.

eg.
/t$/ is true when compared to "eat" but false with "eaten"

how can I do this with PHP?

The reason I want to do this is to parse domain names, before registering them and I dont want to let through names with hyphens at the end, like www.php-.com

Cheers, Jim

[Anon]

With ereg, you can do the same thing:

ereg("[t$]", $var);

will give you the correct response for your example. If you prefer the other way, try using preg_match which uses perl type regular expressions, similar to your javascript example above. Hope that helps.

Chris King

[Anon]

javascript, in fact, uses the perl 4 regex flavour, so you might be more familiar with preg than ereg. (not to mention that preg is faster and more powerful ;-))

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