On Tuesday 01 July 2003 21:38, Dan Joseph wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am currently using this piece of code to validate wether or not an
> address has only letters, numbers, #, or - in it:
>
> if (!ereg("^[A-Za-z0-9 #-]{1,20}", $_POST["address1"])) {
> $error = 1;
> $msg .= "Address must only contain letters, numbers, #, or -.<br>";
> }
>
> However, if I put any valid character as the first, and then any illegal
> characters ([EMAIL PROTECTED], etc) after that, it passes it as ok. Can someone
> tell me
> what I am doing wrong with the regex?
You're only checking for valid characters at the *start* of the string, you
need to check to the *end* of the string as well:
"^[A-Za-z0-9 #-]{1,20}$"
ought to do it.
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