Re: regular expressions question

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Adil Drissi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to limit the user to a set of characters for example say i want my user to enter any character between a and z (case insensitive). And if the user enters just one letter not belonging to [a-z], this will not be accepted.
> 
> I tried  eregi('[a-z]', $fname) but this allows the user to enter abdg4512kdkdk for example.
> 
> Thank you
> 
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Keeping with your example, this works and doesn't allow an empty string
(to allow empty, replace the + with *):

eregi('^[a-z]+$', $fname)
-or-
ereg('^[A-Za-z]+$', $fname)

But ctype_alpha() is a better multi-locale solution.

-Shawn

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