* Thus wrote Yann Larrivee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi, i did a standard preg [A-Za-z0-9]{1,65536}
>
> What i am simply trying to do is to validate the a form that will insert
> into my TEXT database field. So i just want to prevent a larger insert
> then expected.
>
>
> PHP trows me this error "preg_match(): Compilation failed: number too
> big in {} quantifier at offset 19 ..."
>
>
> So it appears that quantifiers are limited. Anybody knows what that
> limit is ?
It looks like it should be 65535, which makes more sense because
that is the unsigned word boundry.
if you inisist on having a 65536 limit use strlen with the preg
if (strlen($str) <= 65536 && preg_match('/[A-Za-z0-9]+/', $str)) {
HTH,
Curt
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