ereg and other languages...

[mgyth]

Hi.
I'm trying to validate a form using ereg().
But it's a Norwegian page and the characters: Ææ,Øø and Åå, will appear. Thus making the form validation false.
How can I, if possible, adapt ereg to recognise these characters as valid?

[lilleman]

Hi,

You can specify any characters you want as shown below.

if(ereg('^[a-zA-ZÆæØøÅå]+$', $string)) 

I hope this can help you.

Yours, Erik.

[stereofrog]

The more common solution is to setup your locale accordingly (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php). Among regexps, this affects other vital things like sorting etc. And do not use ereg, it's deprecated.

[Lats]

And do not use ereg, it's deprecated.

Where is this announced?

[lilleman]

Hi,

And do not use ereg, it's deprecated.

The ereg functions are not deprecated. However, it is better to use the PCRE functions since they are faster.

Yours, Erik.