Any questions involving matching text strings to patterns - the pattern is called a "regular expression."
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psychotomus
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by psychotomus »
i only want strings that containt z-z A-Z 0-9 and -
how can i do this?
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feyd
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What have you tried?
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psychotomus
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right now im using php. just looping threw characters and checking them
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by Christopher »
Do you want to check if it contains only those characters or filter out any characters but those you want?
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psychotomus wrote:right now im using php. just looping threw characters and checking them
I assumed that. What I am wanting to see is what have you tried to do so using a regular expression?
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psychotomus
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by psychotomus »
I don't even know where to begin =(
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psychotomus wrote:I don't even know where to begin =(
Have you read the stickies in this section? How about other threads? The regular expression threads linked from Useful Posts?