Re: [PHP] preg_match help please

2005-09-08 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Steve Turnbull wrote: I am trying to find a regular expression to match a variable, what I think should work (but doesn't) is; preg_match ('^/[\w],[\w],/', $variable) The $variable MUST contain an alpha-numeric string, followed by a comma, followed by another alpha-numeric string, followed by

Re: [PHP] preg_match help please

2005-09-08 Thread Steve Turnbull
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Steve Turnbull wrote: I am trying to find a regular expression to match a variable, what I think should work (but doesn't) is; preg_match ('^/[\w],[\w],/', $variable) The $variable MUST contain an alpha-numeric string,

Re: [PHP] preg_match help please

2005-09-08 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Steve Turnbull wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Something like '/^\w+,\w+,\w*$/' maybe? (untested) http://php.net/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax Thats got me a lot further - thanks I reduced it slightly to '/^\w+,\w+,' because at the end there is the

RE: [PHP] preg_match help please

2005-09-08 Thread Ford, Mike
On 08 September 2005 09:15, Steve Turnbull wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Steve Turnbull wrote: I am trying to find a regular expression to match a variable, what I think should work (but doesn't) is; preg_match ('^/[\w],[\w],/',

Re: [PHP] preg_match help please

2005-09-08 Thread Steve Turnbull
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:15:03 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Steve Turnbull wrote: I am trying to find a regular expression to match a variable, what I think should work (but doesn't) is; preg_match ('^/[\w],[\w],/', $variable)

Re: [PHP] preg_match help please

2005-09-08 Thread Steve Turnbull
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:36:36 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:15:03 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Steve Turnbull wrote: I am trying to find a regular expression to match a variable, what I think should work

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-28 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:50, André Medeiros wrote: You can have four words to describe a first and last name... you can have other alphabets, like arabian, chinese, etc... inserting accented characters alone would make that a big, nasty regex, let alone predicting ways you can describe

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-28 Thread André Medeiros
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 19:45 +0800, Jason Wong wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:50, André Medeiros wrote: You can have four words to describe a first and last name... you can have other alphabets, like arabian, chinese, etc... inserting accented characters alone would make that a big,

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread John Nichel
Steve Turnbull wrote: Hi I want to see that a user is submiting a form field in the correct manner. So I decided to use preg_match to verify their input. The pattern I am trying to match is; Firstname Secondname I am not bothered about character length just yet (but advise on this would be

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread André Medeiros
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:27 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote: Hi I want to see that a user is submiting a form field in the correct manner. So I decided to use preg_match to verify their input. The pattern I am trying to match is; Firstname Secondname I am not bothered about character

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread André Medeiros
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:27 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote: Hi I want to see that a user is submiting a form field in the correct manner. So I decided to use preg_match to verify their input. The pattern I am trying to match is; Firstname Secondname I am not bothered about character

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread Mark Rees
André Medeiros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:27 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote: Hi I want to see that a user is submiting a form field in the correct manner. So I decided to use preg_match to verify their input. The pattern I am trying

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread André Medeiros
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:16 +0100, Mark Rees wrote: André Medeiros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:27 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote: Hi I want to see that a user is submiting a form field in the correct manner. So I decided to use

RE: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread Mike Johnson
From: André Medeiros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:16 +0100, Mark Rees wrote: Or even four - like Rafael van der Vaart for example - so make sure that the surname box matches spaces as well, and special characters like the ê, as well as ' as in John O'Kane

RE: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread André Medeiros
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:41 -0400, Mike Johnson wrote: From: André Medeiros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:16 +0100, Mark Rees wrote: Or even four - like Rafael van der Vaart for example - so make sure that the surname box matches spaces as well, and special

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread John Nichel
André Medeiros wrote: That's not very nice of you, saying that to people who try to help ;) if( strpos( $_POST['frmName'], ' ' ) === false ) { // Do error handling here } else { // All is OK :) } How does that match Firstname Lastname better than a regex? That will return true as

RE: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread Mike Johnson
From: André Medeiros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:41 -0400, Mike Johnson wrote: From: André Medeiros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:16 +0100, Mark Rees wrote: Or even four - like Rafael van der Vaart for example - so make sure that

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread André Medeiros
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:55 -0400, John Nichel wrote: André Medeiros wrote: That's not very nice of you, saying that to people who try to help ;) if( strpos( $_POST['frmName'], ' ' ) === false ) { // Do error handling here } else { // All is OK :) } How does that

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread John Nichel
André Medeiros wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:55 -0400, John Nichel wrote: André Medeiros wrote: That's not very nice of you, saying that to people who try to help ;) if( strpos( $_POST['frmName'], ' ' ) === false ) { // Do error handling here } else { // All is OK :) } How does

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread André Medeiros
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:30 -0400, John Nichel wrote: André Medeiros wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:55 -0400, John Nichel wrote: André Medeiros wrote: That's not very nice of you, saying that to people who try to help ;) if( strpos( $_POST['frmName'], ' ' ) === false ) { // Do

Re: [PHP] preg_match - help please

2005-07-27 Thread John Nichel
André Medeiros wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:30 -0400, John Nichel wrote: André Medeiros wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:55 -0400, John Nichel wrote: André Medeiros wrote: That's not very nice of you, saying that to people who try to help ;) if( strpos( $_POST['frmName'], ' ' ) ===