Read my original email for the example string, I have referred to this in every one of my emails. It's even at the bottom of this one.
-----Original Message----- From: Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 18, 2007 10:35 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: LOL, preg_match still not working. If you want help, you must provide some example text strings that are to be matched. You keep posting your pattern and that's the problem. Beauford wrote: > Mails been down since this morning (sorry, that's yesterday morning). > Anyway, not sure if this went through, so here it is again. > > ------ > > The bottom line is I want to allow everything in the expression and nothing > else. The new line does not seem to be an issue - I can put as many returns > as I want, but as soon as I add some punctuation, it falls apart. > > As I said before, the ! and the period from my original example are reported > as invalid - as they are in the expression they should be valid, I'm sure > there are other examples as well, but you can see what the problem is. If I > take out the ! and period from my example and leave the new lines in, it > works fine. > > Thanks > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gregory Beaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: February 17, 2007 12:21 PM >> To: Beauford >> Cc: PHP >> Subject: [PHP] Re: LOL, preg_match still not working. >> >> Beauford wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I previously had some issues with preg_match and many of >> you tried to help, >>> but the same problem still exists. Here it is again, if >> anyone can explain >>> to me how to get this to work it would be great - otherwise >> I'll just remove >>> it as I just spent way to much time on this. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Here's the code. >>> >>> if(empty($comment)) { $formerror['comment'] = nocomments; >>> } >>> elseif(!preg_match('|[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*();:_.\\\\ /\t-]+$|', >>> $comment)) { >>> $formerror['comment'] = invalidchars; >>> } >>> >>> This produces an error, which I believe it should not. >>> >>> Testing 12345. This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. >>> >>> WAKE UP!!!!!! >> Hi, >> >> Your sample text contains newlines. If you wish to allow newlines, >> instead of " \t" you should use the whitespace selector "\s" >> >> <?php >> $comment = 'Testing 12345. This is a test of the emergency >> broadcast system. >> >> WAKE UP!!!!!!'; >> if(!preg_match('|[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*();:_.\\\\\s/-]+$|', $comment)) { >> echo 'oops'; >> } else { >> echo 'ok'; >> } >> ?> >> >> Try that code sample, and you'll see that it says "ok" >> >> What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this >> preg_match()? What >> exactly are you trying to filter out? I understand you want to >> eliminate "invalid characters" but why are they invalid? I >> ask because >> there may be a simpler way to solve the problem, if you can >> explain what >> the problem is. >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
