simple question with ereg

[jacinthe]

hi folks,

i've been trying to validate my input text with ereg but it still don't work.

All I want to accept is number, * and -.

But with this line as validation :

if (ereg('[0-9*]', $value))
{
echo "ok!";
}

letter are still accepted.

have an idea?

thanx,

Jacinthe

[Anon]

I quickly knocked this one up:
if (ereg("^{([0-9*-]+[a-z])$",} $value)) {
print("ok!");
}
else {
print("Not OK!");
}
What you need to do is ad an atom which says: No Letters I.E. [^a-z]!
Hope it works. I did it in a hurry! :=)

[reagent]

Both these will work. no need for [^a-z]:

preg_match('/^[\d-]+$/', $string);
ereg('^[0-9-]+$', $string);

p.

[jacinthe]

thank you Stephen 🙂