Thanks Andy! You're a timesaver!
Frank
"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> schreef in bericht
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> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:53:11 +0200, "Frank" <frankdegrauwe@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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>>I'm having trouble detecting whitespaces in strings.
>>
>>Set up this test:
>>
>>echo "<br>example 1:".intval(eregi("^\s","teststring"));
>>echo "<br>example 2:".intval(eregi("^\s","test string"));
>>
>>Both resulting in 0 (zero)[/color]
>
> Which is correct. Your pattern is looking for:
>
> ^ - start of line
> \s - followed by the literal string 's'
>
> Consider:
>
> echo "<br>example 3:".intval(eregi("^\s","string test"));
>
> Output:
>
> example 3:1
>
> Because that does start with an 's'.
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>>also tried [:space:] and [:blank:] without result
>>
>>Who can help this regular newbie expressing himself ?[/color]
>
> For starters don't use ereg, use the preg functions, they're better for
> numerous reasons.
>
>
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
>
> It looks like you're already trying to use Perl-compatible expressions,
> since
> you used \s. This would work if you used preg_match, as \s means
> whitespace in
> Perl-compatible expressions, but not in POSIX expressions (as used by
> ereg).
> You then just need to remove the leading ^.
>
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> Andy Hassall / <andy@andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyh.co.uk>
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