Those patterns aren't anchored to the ends of the string, so as long as
the string contains one matching character, the succeeds.
^ anchors the pattern to the beginning, \z to the end, so you want:
/^[A-Za-z]+\z/
Or test the opposite case to see if it fails:
/[^A-Za-z]/
Arpad
Chris Boget wrote:
<?php
echo 'Is String: [' . ( is_string( 'a1b2c3' ) && preg_match(
'/[A-Za-z]+/', 'a1b2c3' )) . ']<br>';
echo 'Is Numeric: [' . ( is_numeric( 'a1b2c3' ) && preg_match(
'/[0-9]+/', 'a1b2c3' )) . ']<br>';
echo 'Is String: [' . ( is_string( 'abcdef' ) && preg_match(
'/[A-Za-z]+/', 'abcdef' )) . ']<br>';
echo 'Is Numeric: [' . ( is_numeric( '123456' ) && preg_match(
'/[0-9]+/', '123456' )) . ']<br>';
?>
Why is the first "Is String" check returning true/showing 1?
preg_match should fail because 'a1b2c3' contains numbers and, as such,
doesn't match the pattern...
What am I doing wrong?
thnx,
Chris
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