Re: [PHP] preg match compilation error

[Marek Kilimajer]

Do you realy want to use [ and ] as patern delimiters? My quess is that 
you want to use it for defining character class. Then the only character 
that must be escaped is -

'/[^a-z0-9,._+()\-]/i'

Luis Lebron wrote:
I found a reqular expresion that I'm using to check for valid characters in
file names.
Here's the sample code:

if(preg_match("[^a-zA-Z0-9,._\+\()\-]",$filename))
{
        //blah, blah, blah
}
However, when I run the script I get the following error:
Warning: Compilation failed: unmatched parentheses at offset 17 in
/home/httpd/sigmarapid/html/test/upload.php on line 137 (the line with the
preg_match)
I'm new to regular expressions so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Luis R. Lebron
Sigmatech, Inc
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