Huh? You better read that documentation page again. You only need to list the illegal symbols. And what do you mean by length?
-Rasmus On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote: > Is there anything which doesnt use length? And something like eregi, because > it would be infeasible to list all of the symbols that a user could use, to > compare a string by. > > Tim > > "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > See php.net/strcspn > > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tim Ballantine wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Could anyone tell me how to eregi a word, to see if it only contains > either > > > numbers, letters, the "_" and the "-", so that any other symbol with > call it > > > invalid. For example, theres the word "expressio_n" that will be valid, > but > > > the word "express%^$-n" will be invalid. > > > > > > Thankyou, > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
