Re: [PHP] preg for unicode strings?
On Sat, November 5, 2005 3:02 pm, Andy Pieters wrote: Hi List I am doing some data validation and the following regexp fails [\W] When using characters like £ or ⬠Obviously because they are technically more then one character, even though they are only displayed as one. The script is encoded in UTF-8 Anybody know a fix for this? You could use http://php.net/utf8_decode on it first, and then validate... I dunno if that would allow any nasties to get past, but it least it should validate the input as legal I think... I always feel overwhelmed by all this multi-lingual character-encoding multi-byte stuff, frankly. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] preg for unicode strings?
Andy,
try that one: /^[a-zA-Z]{3}|\p{Sc}$/u
You don't want to put \p{Sc} in square brackets as \p{Sc} itself already
is a character class. Umm.. Kinda don't make myself clear here, do I?
You just don't want to, it's 5am in the morning here I gotta go to the
next bed ;p
Regards,
Niels
Andy Pieters:
Hi
Thank you for your reply.
My regexp was
/^([a-zA-Z]{3,}|[\W])/
Meaning match any string that is either
3 letters
or
1 word character
I'd like to change this to
3 letters
or
1 currency character
So I changed the regexp accordingly
/^([a-zA-Z]{3,}|[\p{Sc}])/u
And I tested with £
but it fails.
Any ideas?
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[PHP] preg for unicode strings?
Hi List I am doing some data validation and the following regexp fails [\W] When using characters like £ or € Obviously because they are technically more then one character, even though they are only displayed as one. The script is encoded in UTF-8 Anybody know a fix for this? With kind regards Andy -- Now listening to The Prophet - I Can't Stand It on amaroK Geek code: www.vlaamse-kern.com/geek Registered Linux User No 379093 If life was for sale, what would be its price? www.vlaamse-kern.com/sas/ for free php utilities -- pgpgretkqqhNR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [PHP] preg for unicode strings?
On 11/5/05, Andy Pieters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing some data validation and the following regexp fails [\W] When using characters like £ or € The script is encoded in UTF-8 Are you using the 'u' modifier to put PCRE in utf-8 mode? preg_match( '/\W/u', $text); -robin
Re: [PHP] preg for unicode strings?
Andy,
you might want to check out
http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html
Please note two things while using the described syntax:
1. You have to additionally use the u modificator.
2. While \p{Ll} for instance works in PHP, \p{Lowercase_Letter} doesn't.
Regards,
Niels
Hi List
I am doing some data validation and the following regexp fails
[\W]
When using characters like £ or €
Obviously because they are technically more then one character, even
though they are only displayed as one.
The script is encoded in UTF-8
Anybody know a fix for this?
With kind regards
Andy
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Re: [PHP] preg for unicode strings?
Hi
Thank you for your reply.
My regexp was
/^([a-zA-Z]{3,}|[\W])/
Meaning match any string that is either
3 letters
or
1 word character
I'd like to change this to
3 letters
or
1 currency character
So I changed the regexp accordingly
/^([a-zA-Z]{3,}|[\p{Sc}])/u
And I tested with £
but it fails.
Any ideas?
With kind regards
Andy
On Sunday 06 November 2005 02:11, Niels Ganser wrote:
Andy,
you might want to check out
http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html
Please note two things while using the described syntax:
1. You have to additionally use the u modificator.
2. While \p{Ll} for instance works in PHP, \p{Lowercase_Letter} doesn't.
Regards,
Niels
Hi List
I am doing some data validation and the following regexp fails
[\W]
When using characters like £ or €
Obviously because they are technically more then one character, even
though they are only displayed as one.
The script is encoded in UTF-8
Anybody know a fix for this?
With kind regards
Andy
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