Re: PHP Newbie - RegEx

Many thanks Hank. That has worked!

I now seem to have another problem...



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank Marquardt" <hmarq(at)yerpso.net>
To: "Billy O'Connor" <billyo(at)kennetweb.co.uk>
Cc: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: PHP Newbie - RegEx


> Bill --
>
> If you were writing perl, you'd be darned close:) ... PHP has no regex
> *operators* ... they are functions -- have a peek here:
>
> http://www.php.net/preg_match
> http://www.php.net/preg_replace
>
> ... change your if construct to this:
>
> if(preg_match('/[0-9]+/',$ID)) {
> do this
> } else
> {
> do this
> }
>
> HTH,
>
> Hank
>
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:31:44PM +0100, Billy O'Connor wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble doing a simple regex in PHP and wonder if anyone can
> > help?
> >
> > Can someone tell me how I find out if a variable contains a digit? I
have a
> > script that is passed either a digit or URL's. If the variable contains
a
> > digit, I want the script to extract info from a database, else if it is
a
> > URL, go to the URL.
> >
> > I've tried this, amongst other things and just cannot figure it out....
> >
> > if  ($ID =~ /[0-9]/) {
> > do this
> > } else {
> > do this
> > }
> >
> > I hope someone can help.
> >
> > ATB,
> >
> > Bill.
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> >
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