If I wanted to remove <script></script> tags from my form as well as <html> tags, would I use a preg_match function or is their another simple funtion that does this ?
-Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel J. Rychlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] regex problem > Are you wanting the $_POST['nums1'] to have only numbers, -, ., #, : ???? > > Is this what you are trying to match. if so, try this. > > if ( preg_match("/[^0-9\#\:\.\-]/", $_POST['nums1']) ) { > throw error() > } > > This will match anything that is not a number or one of the other special > chars that are in the pattern to be matched. > > Therefor, if it does find anything that is not in the pattern to be matched > it will return true and then it will enter the if statement instead of > skipping over it. > > Jim Lucas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel J. Rychlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 11:46 AM > Subject: [PHP] regex problem > > > Hello,, > > I have a preg_match issue matching numbers. I am currently using > > !preg_match ('/([0-9\-\.\#:])/', $_POST['nums1'] > throw error[] > > This fails if you use something like ' asdf ' but if you use ' asdf789 ' it > passes false and does not throw an error. > This is not the obvious solution.... I know its a problem in my regular > expression. Should I ONLY be using > > ' /([0-9])/ ' , ? > > Thanks in advance. > Daniel > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php