On 7 June 2010 18:26, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 13:18 -0300, Jo?o C?ndido de Souza Neto wrote: > >> May be this: >> >> /.*?[(@#$%].*/ >> >> "Floyd Resler" <fresler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu na mensagem >> news:3C7C9EE4-786E-4447-859E-AD055635986D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> I need to test for the existence of at least one punctuation (@#$%') >> character in a string. What would my regular expression be? >> >> Thanks! >> Floyd >> >> >> > > > You don't need the . character there to match anything. Also, ( and $ > have a special meaning in regex, so should be escaped to avoid any > confusion or problems. > ( and $ have no special meaning inside square brackets - you don't need to escape them there. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15 </hype> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
