On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:00:43 -0500, you wrote:

>Maybe I'm off my rocker, but I don't see how this can't work. I'm trying to validate 
>an ICQ number, and assuming a valid one is between 7 and 9 numbers. My line of code 
>is this:
>
>if(ereg("^[0-9]{7,9}$", $_REQUEST["icqnumber"])) {
>    print("a-okay!");
>} else {
>    print("error msg");
>}
>
>I've submitted the ICQ # 2264532680, but it validates. Any ideas?

if (ereg ("^[0-9]{7,9}$", "2264532680")) {
        print ("a-okay!");
} else {
        print ("error msg");
}

fails. I suspect you're not grabbing the variable from the environment
correctly.


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