eregi pattern

[iamjbrandt]

My pattern:

^{(([0-9a-zA-Z]-_[[:space:]])?)$}

It doesn'y work! I am trying to get ANY string that ONLY consists of letters (any case), numbers, -'s, _'s, and white spaces. Example, no commas or periods or anything like that. Why does my pattern not work? It wont even accept "hey" as a valid string.

Thanks!
- Jared

[dalecosp]

[0-9 a-z_-]

??

[iamjbrandt]

Well, I followed your advice, but it still doesn't seem to work. I now have this:

^{(([0-9a-zA-Z_-][[:space:]])?)$}

Thanks for your help, Jared.

[dalecosp]

Well, glad you got it to go. Interesting, since you're using eregi instead of ereg you shouldn't need classes for both lower and uppercase letters, I'd think.

I threw the suggestion out rather quickly, on the basis of this:

<?
$str=array("hey", "far away", "yester-day");
$x=0;
while ($x<=2) {
$bob=ereg("[0-9 a-z_-]", "$str[$x]");
if ($bob)
   echo "yup | ";
else
   echo "nope | ";
$x++;
}
?>

I got "yup | yup | yup |" and figured I had it down...Ah, well ... :rolleyes:

[iamjbrandt]

OH sorry I didn't catch that space, there! Thanks!