is ti possible?

[Anon]

I'm trying to find a way to make sure that there are atleast three spaces enterd in a particular < textarea > field of a form.

I tried the following:
<?
if ($comments != '% % % %'){
echo "3 spaces not found";
}
else {
echo "3 spaces found!";
}
?>

This doesn't seem to work...
Any ideas?

[Anon]

$comment is an array of chars ( string ). Therefor we just see how many chars it has with sizeof () or count () ..

if ( $sizeof ( $comment ) > 2 ) {

printf ( "3 chars or more found" );

}

else {

printf ( "didn't find 3 chars" );

}

[Anon]

I know how to check for any chars, but i need to know if there are three actual spaces in what is submitted.

any ideas?

[Anon]

Yes a couple of ideias..

It's possible to do with with a regular expression ..

and with a simple loop ..
<?
$spaces = 0;

for ( $i=0; $i<=strlen($string); $i++ ) {

  if ( $string[$i] == " " ) {

       $spaces++;
  }

}

if ( $spaces > 2 ) {
echo "3 or more spaces";
}
else {
echo "less than 3 spaces..";
}

?>

Should do the trick ..