Please help with this regular expression preg_match()

[nubianniht]

Is there anyway to force a specific string format?
For example this requires numbers and no leading zeros.

^[1-9][0-9]+$

What I'm looking to do is force the end-user to enter the string 'lbs' (in that exact order) after the numbers so they'd be forced to enter say '125lbs'.
Also for height, would it be possible to force the ' (hyphen) and " (quotes) in a format like 5'11"?
Any help will greatly be appreciated.

[Zarin Denatrose]

This should do it.

^[0-9]'[0-9]{1,2}"$

Outside of []'s, characters act as literals, so you just put them where they need to be in the string.

For your pound issue, use

^[1-9]{1}[0-9]*lbs$

[PHPycho]

This should do it.

^[0-9]'[0-9]{1,2}"$

Outside of []'s, characters act as literals, so you just put them where they need to be in the string.

For your pound issue, use

^[1-9]{1}[0-9]*lbs$

What's difference between using
[1-9]{1} & [0-9] ?

[Zarin Denatrose]

The first doesn't really NEED the {1}, but the difference between the two is that the first range excludes 0, making leading zeroes fail the match.

[PHPycho]

The first doesn't really NEED the {1}, but the difference between the two is that the first range excludes 0, making leading zeroes fail the match.

Sorry my mistake.
I was mean to ask difference between two rather:
[1-9]{1} & [1-9]

[Zarin Denatrose]

Ah. Yes, there really isn't one.

[PHPycho]

Ah. Yes, there really isn't one.

expecting the same