Steve Turnbull wrote:
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
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
That's what the \w* means. That means "0 or more word-characters", as
opposed to \w+ which means "1 or more word-characters. The $ after that
means "end of string" which makes sure that it's the last thing in the
string.
In other words, \w* means some word-characters, or nothing at all. You'd
need to handle the newline in much the same way. The URL I gave you
should help out a lot with that.
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