[Resolved] preg_match

[Calahan]

This is the code I wrote to check user's input. Works well except when $key[country] is equal to United Kingdom. Works fine when it's set to United States. Can't understand why so if any of you can, please point it out!

foreach ($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key => $value)
{
if ($key == "username" or $key =="firstname" or $key =="lastname" or $key =="address1" or $key =="address2" or $key =="county" or $key =="postcode" or $key =="country")
		{
			if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z'0-9 -]{1,40}$/", $value))
			{
			$bad_format[$key] ="bad";
			}
		}
}

[steadyguy]

What if you use \s instead of a literal space?
ie: preg_match("/^{[A-Za-z'0-9\s-]{1,40}$/",} $value);

[Calahan]

Nice one!
That did the job.

To save me asking again and for my future reference, does anyone know of a website that lists all the possible arguments that I can use with Preg_match?

[steadyguy]

Glad to be of service ... Since the 'p' in the preg_*() functions stands for Perl (compatible), the Perldoc Regex pages would probably be a good start.

[Calahan]

Again, just what I needed.

Thanks Steady!