On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 08:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm new with RegEx and I would like to use them to validate my forms
> entries submitted to the server.
>
> My question is how can I verify with the regex that a string is
> - at least 7 chars
> - contains Chars and Nums
> - may contains some special chars (ex : % ! : ; , )but not in first or
> last
> position .
I'm assuming that by Chars you mean uppercase/lowercase letters?
Numbers are characters too, I thought.
preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9%!:;,]{5,}[A-Za-z0-9]$/', $string);
The above regex will only match a string that begins with A-Z or a-z or
0-9, then any number of characters that are in the middle character
class, then a final A-Z or a-z or 0-9.
I think. Try it out, that's untested.
Erik
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