On Thursday 22 Apr 2010, Mimi Cafe wrote:
> I am trying to match words or complete phrase (excluding special characters)
> like:
> 1. Tom
> 2. Tom and Jerry
> 3. Audio A4 Quattro
>
> I need to ensure users cannot feed my program with special characters so I
> tried this below, but it doesn't match correctly.
<Code>
if ($string =~ /^[\w\s]*$/) {print "$string\n";}
else {print "Invalid Keyword. Please check and try again\n";}
</Code>
Audio A4 Quattro -> Audio A4 Quattro
Tom & Jerry -> Invalid Keyword. Please check and try again
Regards,
Akhthar Parvez K
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