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Regular expressions help!!

di11on · 2009-11-18 13:50:28

Hi folks, I want to create a regular expression to return all alphanumeric characters between an occurrence of "dimensions" (case insensitive) and <br> or </p> (also case insensitive) Would be very grateful. Thanks in advance

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18-11-2009 2:50pm

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di11on

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Hi folks,

I want to create a regular expression to return all alphanumeric characters between an occurrence of "dimensions" (case insensitive) and <br> or </p> (also case insensitive)

Would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance

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#2 18-11-2009 3:57pm
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Is it in PHP??

Something like this will work:
preg_match ( "/^([a-z]||[A-Z]||[0-9])+$/", $string )

or
preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]+$/i', $string)

The second one is an easier way. Both work.

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#3 18-11-2009 3:59pm
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Another way is using javascript. Something like this will help.

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/index_famsupp_160.html

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#4 18-11-2009 6:30pm
di11on

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Thanks guys!

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