Thankyou... I should have made it clearer that I did want to use only the legal characters to compare the string by.
Tim "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Well, either you need to know the valid chars or the invalid ones. Make > up your mind and use strspn() or strcspn() appropriately. > > -Rasmus > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote: > > > "Returns the length of the initial segment of str1 which does not contain > > any of the characters in str2." > > > > I realise that i could see if this matches with the length of the entire > > word, and is there a way to get it to compare the word by the legal > > characters, because the amount of illegal symbols, including different > > language symbols (french for example) will be too high for me to list. > > > > Tim > > > > "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Huh? You better read that documentation page again. You only need to > > > list the illegal symbols. And what do you mean by length? > > > > > > -Rasmus > > > > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote: > > > > > > > Is there anything which doesnt use length? And something like eregi, > > because > > > > it would be infeasible to list all of the symbols that a user could use, > > to > > > > compare a string by. > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > > See php.net/strcspn > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > Could anyone tell me how to eregi a word, to see if it only contains > > > > either > > > > > > numbers, letters, the "_" and the "-", so that any other symbol with > > > > call it > > > > > > invalid. For example, theres the word "expressio_n" that will be > > valid, > > > > but > > > > > > the word "express%^$-n" will be invalid. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thankyou, > > > > > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
