No, this is what I said in my original email. I want to allow the following: a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9, and "_-'" (without the double quotes) and spaces. I don't care about length, I don't care about order. I just want the user to be able to use these characters. A to z A to Z 0 to 9 and the character _-' and spaces. So ABCDE __-' is valid, so is _-aaaBBcD' __ Thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: Niel Archer [mailto:Niel Archer] On Behalf Of Niel Archer > Sent: January 16, 2007 11:46 AM > To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Ereg problems > > Hi > > What you've written doesn't match the description you gave. > As a regular expression "([0-9][A-Z][a-z][-_.'\ ])" means a > digit followed by an uppercase letter followed by a lower > case letter followed by (hyphen or underscore or mid-dot or > single quote or space). This is a total of four characters only. > Is your string only supposed to be four characters in that format? > I had assumed from your original post, that you wanted a > variable length string, that could only contain alphanumeric > characters plus hyphen, underscore, and single quote (I > missed the space). All of which in any position. If this is > not the case please describe exactly what it is you're trying > to achieve. > > > > Niel > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
