On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > Steve Turnbull wrote: >> I am trying to find a regular expression to match a variable, what I think >> should work (but doesn't) is; >> >> preg_match ('^/[\w],[\w],/', $variable) >> >> The $variable MUST contain an alpha-numeric string, followed by a comma, >> followed by another alpha-numeric string, followed by another comma >> followed by (but doesn't have to!!) another alpha-numeric string followed >> by nothing. >> >> I realise my regex above doesn't allow for the last 'followed by nothing', >> but to me it looks like it should match the first part of the string up to >> the last comma? > > Something like > > '/^\w+,\w+,\w*$/' > > maybe? (untested) > > http://php.net/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax Thats got me a lot further - thanks I reduced it slightly to '/^\w+,\w+,' because at the end there is the possibility of an alpha-numeric character(s) OR nothing at all with the exception of a possible line break (note possible) It's the 'possibly nothing at all' which I am slightly stuck on Thanks Steve -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php