checking for Euro currency symbol in regexp

[Kevin]

Hi, I want to check that a string entered via a from contains the only
cdertain characters including the Euro currency symbol using a reg exp
in PHP.

I've set my web page to use charset=iso-8859-15 and tried

$allowed = "[^-a-zA-Z0-9.:,!+£$ \\ ". chr(128) ."]";
if ( ereg( $allowed, $str) )
but the ereg regects any string containing the symbol.

Any help would be great,

Kevin

[Andy Hassall]

On 3 Dec 2003 09:32:56 -0800, km******@yahoo.co.uk (Kevin) wrote:

Hi, I want to check that a string entered via a from contains the only
cdertain characters including the Euro currency symbol using a reg exp
in PHP.

I've set my web page to use charset=iso-8859-15 and tried

$allowed = "[^-a-zA-Z0-9.:,!+£$ \\ ". chr(128) ."]";
if ( ereg( $allowed, $str) )

but the ereg regects any string containing the symbol.

128 is not a valid printable character in iso-8859-15.
The code for Euro is 164.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15

It's only 128 in Microsoft Codepage 1252.
http://www.kostis.net/charsets/cp1252.htm

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