Ok, i never said I was good with regex, but theoretically this SHOULD work, but it doesn't...lol.
{
error("The name you provided not appear to be valied. Please note it needs to be your FULL name. Please try again...");
}
The error code returned is;
Anyone got an idea on why this is? I'm trying to search for 2-15 characters for the first name, then no more than 2 spaces, and then 2-25 charahters for the last name. For some reason it doesn't like the formatting (if I remove the {...} parts it works ok).
Thanks
Andy (mod)
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Code:
if(!preg_match("/[a-zA-Z]{2,15}+\s{1,2}+[a-zA-Z]{2,25}+$/", $name)) {
error("The name you provided not appear to be valied. Please note it needs to be your FULL name. Please try again...");
}
The error code returned is;
Quote:
Warning: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 14 in c:\program files\nusphere\apache\nsdocs\test\wedding\add.php on line 212Anyone got an idea on why this is? I'm trying to search for 2-15 characters for the first name, then no more than 2 spaces, and then 2-25 charahters for the last name. For some reason it doesn't like the formatting (if I remove the {...} parts it works ok).
Thanks
Andy (mod)
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Stupid Regex Question...