From: "Tanel Tammik" on

"Peter Lind" <peter.e.lind(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:AANLkTilQkZ8DNC0ZAcFv70tcTF2WQKGpZOJcCqtuWu8C(a)mail.gmail.com...
> On 1 June 2010 17:33, Ashley Sheridan <ash(a)ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:31 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote:
>>
>>> $re1 = '/^[a-z]++$/i';
>>> $re2 = '/^[a-z ]++$/i';
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -----
>>> Richard Quadling
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>>>
>>
>>
>> Why the double ++ in the expressions there? Surely one + would match the
>> 1 or more characters that you need and the second one would just be
>> surplus?
>>
>
> Equally important: why have three people already done this persons
> homework. 5 minutes googling would have answered this ...
>
>
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i made an regular expression now by myself. i need to check if string starts
with 'get' and is followed only by letters a-z case insensitive. am i
correct?

'/^get[a-z]++$/i'

Br
Tanel


From: Ashley Sheridan on
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 22:54 +0300, Tanel Tammik wrote:

> "Peter Lind" <peter.e.lind(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:AANLkTilQkZ8DNC0ZAcFv70tcTF2WQKGpZOJcCqtuWu8C(a)mail.gmail.com...
> > On 1 June 2010 17:33, Ashley Sheridan <ash(a)ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:31 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote:
> >>
> >>> $re1 = '/^[a-z]++$/i';
> >>> $re2 = '/^[a-z ]++$/i';
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> -----
> >>> Richard Quadling
> >>> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
> >>> EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html
> >>> EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp
> >>> Zend Certified Engineer :
> >>> http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
> >>> ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Why the double ++ in the expressions there? Surely one + would match the
> >> 1 or more characters that you need and the second one would just be
> >> surplus?
> >>
> >
> > Equally important: why have three people already done this persons
> > homework. 5 minutes googling would have answered this ...
> >
> >
> > --
> > <hype>
> > WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk
> > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind
> > BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15
> > </hype>
>
> i made an regular expression now by myself. i need to check if string starts
> with 'get' and is followed only by letters a-z case insensitive. am i
> correct?
>
> '/^get[a-z]++$/i'
>
> Br
> Tanel
>
>
>


Yep, that looks right. If you're in any doubt, there are lots of online
regex testers which you can run strings and patterns against. Just
Google for them.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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