--- On Sun, 9/28/08, Daniel Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings gang. Looking for a little help with regular
> expressions that I suck at... :(
>
> I have a page where the user can enter a number of email
> addresses separated by white space, comma, or semi-colon.
> I found some code on the PHP site to split it by comma
> and/or whitespace, but I wanted to add semicolon. It
> looks like so:
>
> $email = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", $entry);
>
> So I tried:
>
> $email = preg_split("/[\s,;]+/", $entry);
>
> and it seemed to ignore the semicolon. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks.
As in your example, $email will be an array. Try split() which can accept
regular expressions as well:
$email = split("[; ,]+", $entry);
James
