hello to all,

I have a two different questions that i would greatly appreciate your assistance on...

I am trying to control a input type field via php using regular expression, but unfortunately i don't know where to start.
I want the field to contain a V(as the first character) and numbers for the remainder of the field. How do I utilize the regular expression or write the regular expression to accomplish that task?

eg. V12345, V45464, V94948

Moreoever, I've asked this particular question before and received a good answer, but and still unsure of practices. Would it be a good practice to adapt by seprating your sql statements and functions from your client side scripts and pages? What is the general practice in the industry for security reasons and/or performance reasons regarding sql scripts in php client side pages?

I hope that made sense, and I am looking forward to hearing back from everyone...

Dungey

Hey, I'm a bit new to regular expressions, but I believe this is the pattern you want:

V[0-9]{5}

HTH

-Snib
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Thanks snibs for the help. I have a couple more questions if you don't mind. Is the "{5}" for only 5 characters after the V are allowed? and also how do i allow lowercase v in the expression cause it won't except a lower case v when I try it.


thanks...dungey

The best place to look for this sort of thing is in the PHP manual. Assuming you're using Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE).

http://www.php.net/pcre
http://www.php.net/manual/en/referen...ern.syntax.php

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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Amended:

(v|V)[0-9]{5}

Yes, the {5} says that there will be five numbers from 0-9.

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Thank you all for assisting... It works nicely...

dung