On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:04, John Van Pelt wrote:
> function isWord($element) {
> return !preg_match ("/[^A-Za-z\-\(\)\s]/", $element);
> }
>
> I want to test the string $element and make sure that it contains nothing
> but:
> - characters A-Z
> - characters a-z
> - hyphen
> - parentheses (open and close)
> - space character or its equivalent
As John has previously suggested the best way to go about this is to remove
anything which is not in the set of acceptable characters, which for the
above is:
$new = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z-\()\s]/', '', $old);
Then check that $new is not empty().
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