Ereg question

[bonehead]

Greetings,

I'd like to add somee error handling to a password field: if the
password is fewer than 5 characters or greater than 15 characters I'd
like to trap it. Special characters such as ^ and ~ will be allowed, but
spaces will not be allowed.

Can someone suggest and ereg expression that will help with this? Also,
does php have a length function similar to vb's len(mystring)?

[Chung Leong]

Yup, regular expression is the perfect tool for this task. Try this:

echo preg_match('|^\\w{5,15}$|', $password) ? "Good" : "Bad";

Uzytkownik "bonehead" <se**********@here.org> napisal w wiadomosci
news:3F**************@here.org...

Greetings,

I'd like to add somee error handling to a password field: if the
password is fewer than 5 characters or greater than 15 characters I'd
like to trap it. Special characters such as ^ and ~ will be allowed, but
spaces will not be allowed.

Can someone suggest and ereg expression that will help with this? Also,
does php have a length function similar to vb's len(mystring)?

[Tormod Fjeldskår]

bonehead wrote:

Also, does php have a length function similar to vb's len(mystring)?

Sure: $length = strlen($mystring);
<URL: http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php>

--
Tormod Fjeldskår
to****@fritidsproblemer.no
http://tormod.fritidsproblemer.no/

[bonehead]

Chung I must say you've been very very helpful. Sure hope you're getting
paid enough. And are you actually fluent in Polish?

Chung Leong wrote:

Yup, regular expression is the perfect tool for this task. Try this:

echo preg_match('|^\\w{5,15}$|', $password) ? "Good" : "Bad";

Uzytkownik "bonehead" <se**********@here.org> napisal w wiadomosci
news:3F**************@here.org...

Greetings,

I'd like to add somee error handling to a password field: if the
password is fewer than 5 characters or greater than 15 characters I'd
like to trap it. Special characters such as ^ and ~ will be allowed, but
spaces will not be allowed.

Can someone suggest and ereg expression that will help with this? Also,
does php have a length function similar to vb's len(mystring)?

[Chung Leong]

I get paid well enough for someone who studies Polish :-)

Uzytkownik "bonehead" <se**********@here.org> napisal w wiadomosci
news:3F************@here.org...

Chung I must say you've been very very helpful. Sure hope you're getting
paid enough. And are you actually fluent in Polish?

Chung Leong wrote:

Yup, regular expression is the perfect tool for this task. Try this:

echo preg_match('|^\\w{5,15}$|', $password) ? "Good" : "Bad";

Uzytkownik "bonehead" <se**********@here.org> napisal w wiadomosci
news:3F**************@here.org...

Greetings,

I'd like to add somee error handling to a password field: if the
password is fewer than 5 characters or greater than 15 characters I'd
like to trap it. Special characters such as ^ and ~ will be allowed, but
spaces will not be allowed.

Can someone suggest and ereg expression that will help with this? Also,
does php have a length function similar to vb's len(mystring)?

[Shawn Wilson]

bonehead wrote:

Greetings,

I'd like to add somee error handling to a password field: if the
password is fewer than 5 characters or greater than 15 characters I'd
like to trap it. Special characters such as ^ and ~ will be allowed, but
spaces will not be allowed.

Can someone suggest and ereg expression that will help with this? Also,
does php have a length function similar to vb's len(mystring)?

The preg functions are usually faster than the ereg. And strlen() will give you
the string length.

Shawn
--
Shawn Wilson
sh***@glassgiant.com
http://www.glassgiant.com