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Jul 11, 2002, 9:28 AM

Andy

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Jul 11, 2002, 9:28 AM

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Regex...

Before anyone has a go at me, I put this in here because its a PHP post...

I'm having problems with getting spaces to be recognised in my string as ok. At the moment I have;

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if (!preg_match("/([0-9a-z]\s){1,$max_title_length}$/i",$Price)) { error("Your advert title was incorrect. It must be between 1 and $max_title_length."); }
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$max_title_length is provided as 255 in the config file, and I know it is correct as it shows 255 ok in the error. Does anyone know how to include the space in there, but still limit the sentance to 255 chars?

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Jul 11, 2002, 9:31 AM

Paul

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Jul 11, 2002, 9:31 AM

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Re: [Andy] Regex... In reply to

If php regex is anything like perl (which I guess it is as it was "copied")... then your syntax is wrong.

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if (!preg_match("/([0-9a-z ]{1,$max_title_length})$/i",$Price)) {

I'm not sure why you need ( ) though seeing as you aren't doing anything with the match.

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Paul: Jul 11, 2002, 9:32 AM

Jul 11, 2002, 9:39 AM

Andy

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Jul 11, 2002, 9:39 AM

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Yup, its 'Perl Compatable'. That seems to have fixed it...but the {} parts arn't seeming to take effect Crazy

if (!preg_match("/[0-9a-z ]{1,50}$/i",$Title)) { error("Your advert title was incorrect. It must be between 1 and $max_title_length."); }

I even tried manually entering the 50 in, in case it didn't like a variable being called within the match.

Any ideas?

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Jul 11, 2002, 9:46 AM

Paul

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Jul 11, 2002, 9:46 AM

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What do you mean by "it's not taking effect"?

Perhaps you need ^ at the start of your regex? Tongue

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Jul 11, 2002, 9:51 AM

Andy

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Jul 11, 2002, 9:51 AM

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What I mean, is it doesn't matter if I used 500 charachters in the $Title variable, it just doesn't care!

I use the {,2} option in the price checking;

if (!preg_match("/[0-9]{1,6}\.[0-9]{,2}$/",$Price)) { error("The Price you entered, $Price, was not valid. You need to provide the \$'s and cents (i.e 23.00). Prices are in dollars."); }

And the above works fine Unsure