ereg help please

bastien

why does this fail when comparing to a name(alpha only)?

if (!ereg("^{[a-zA-Z]$",$f_name))}

TIA

nnichols

if (!ereg("^[a-zA-Z]+$",$f_name))

Hope this helps 😉

bastien

thanks for that...one more thing...how do you account for a space? like spaces in a street address. i tried

if (!ereg("[A-Za-z0-9#-]+$",$street)){

with the $street="159 rouge forest cres"

but still having a problem

nnichols

I think "\s" and "\ " will both match a space. Give it a try.

bastien

still stuck here

//check that all data for street is only a-z, numbers (incl number sign) and the hyphen
if (ereg("^{[A-Za-z0-9#-.\s]+$",$street)){}
echo "ok street";
}else{
$street="error";
echo "error str";
$errors=1;

}

where $street is the same as above

TIA

tomhath

Avoid ereg, it's crippled. The perl compatible functions are much better:


$street="159 rouge forest cres";


if (preg_match("/^[A-Za-z0-9#-.\s]+$/",$street)){ 
echo "ok street"; 
}else{ 
$street="error"; 
echo "error str"; 
$errors=1; 

}