Problem with regex

Seachmall

I have this regex (preg_match) but it won't work and I'm not sure why

[PHP]
$regex="/^(Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|Sunday)-([1-9]{1}|[1-2]{1}[0-9]{1}|[3]{1}[0-1]{1})/([1-9]{1}|[1]{1}[0-2]{1})/'20'([0-9]{2})$/";
if(preg_match($regex, $input)){ //<<Line 560
[/PHP]

It should accept strings like Tuesday-5/5/2005 but I get the error

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier '(' in path/to/file.php on line 560

Any Help?

carveone

Seachmall wrote: »

I have this regex (preg_match) but it won't work and I'm not sure why

Humph. Boards.ie smoked my reply - let's try again!

I believe that the - and / characters after "Sunday)" and before "'20'" respectively should be escaped - ie: "\-" and "\/". Also not sure why you've quoted the '20', probably shouldn't!

Conor.

PS: "[1-9]{1}" and "[1-9]" are the same thing except the latter is less cluttered.

Ginger

Check out ReguLazy

Hobbes

Nice app called RegExBuddy will help you no end with that.

Evil Phil

Regex Builder is free and handy if you're on windows.