if (ereg('^[a-z][-a-z0-9\._]*[a-z]$', $TestPwd)) {
echo "Good";
} else {
echo "Bad password $TestPwd";
}
should do it.
If you want a case insensitive match, use eregi(...) instead. The
above regexp allows passwords as short as 2 characters. If you want
to, for example, enforce a password length of 4 to 8 characters, you
can do:
ereg('^[a-z][-a-z0-9\._]{2,6}[a-z]$', $TestPwd)
See
http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php
for more info.
-steve
At 5:55 PM -0700 9/24/01, Oliver Ertl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I need a regex for a username validation. The ereg
>function should be used.
>
>o the username must start and end with a-z
>o in the middle it could be a-z0-9\.-_
>o and never something like this -- -. _- and so on
>
>Thanks for your help
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
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