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musoNic80
musoNic80

Reputation: 3696

ereg to preg conversion

I'm a complete novice when it comes to regex. Could someone help me convert the following expression to preg?

ereg('[a-zA-Z0-9]+[[:punct:]]+', $password)

An explanation to accompany any solution would be especially useful!!!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1207

Answers (2)

Craig Trader
Craig Trader

Reputation: 15679

To answer your real question, you'd need to structure your code like:

if ( preg_match( '/[a-z]+/', $password ) && 
  preg_match( '/[A-Z]+/', $password ) && 
  preg_match( '/[0-9]+/', $password ) && 
  preg_match( '/[[:punct:]]+/', $password ) ) ...

If you wanted to ensure the presence of at least one lowercase letter, at least one uppercase letter, at least one digit, and at least one punctuation character in your password.

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Upvotes: 1

Bob Fincheimer
Bob Fincheimer

Reputation: 18056

preg_match('/[a-zA-Z0-9]+[[:punct:]]+/', $password)

You simply put a / at the beginning and a / at the end. Following the / at the end you can put some different options:

i - case insensitive

g - do a gloabl search

For more information in the beautiful world of regex in PHP, check out this:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/php.html

Upvotes: 1

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