Re: [PHP] Looking for an easier regex check...

2002-04-29 Thread Joshua E Minnie
Worked great only you forgot to escape the carat character. Thanks for the help. Josh "Miguel Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Joshua E Minnie wrote: > > Does anybody know of a good way to make sure that a string cont

Re: [PHP] Looking for an easier regex check...

2002-04-29 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Joshua E Minnie wrote: > Does anybody know of a good way to make sure that a string contains ONLY > certain characters. I tried using > ereg("[~`!@#$%^&*(){}-+=|\\/.,<>'\":;\[\]]", $string); but I get parse > errors. I'm surprised you get a parse error. I'd expect you would g

[PHP] Looking for an easier regex check...

2002-04-29 Thread Joshua E Minnie
Does anybody know of a good way to make sure that a string contains ONLY certain characters. I tried using ereg("[~`!@#$%^&*(){}-+=|\\/.,<>'\":;\[\]]", $string); but I get parse errors. Besides that I only want the characters A-Za-z0-9_ in $string. Is there is simpler way to ensure this rather

[PHP] Looking for an easier regex check...

2002-04-29 Thread Joshua E Minnie
Does anybody know of a good way to make sure that a string contains ONLY certain characters. I tried using ereg("[~`!@#$%^&*(){}-+=|\\/.,<>'\":;\[\]]", $string); but I get parse errors. Besides that I only want the characters A-Za-z0-9_ in $string. Is there is simpler way to ensure this rather