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Owen
Owen

Reputation: 7577

Zend regex validator difficulty

I want to allow only the following characters in a string: digits, parentheses and the plus sign, which is [0-9] ( ) +

I can't seem to get a combination to get the validator to return true, the only option seems to be an list of every other possible character that's NOT allowed... which would make for a large list!

Am I missing something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 367

Answers (2)

Alex Howansky
Alex Howansky

Reputation: 53553

You need to slash-escape parens and the plus, because they have special meanings in regex:

/^[\d\(\)\+]+$/

Upvotes: 1

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 141839

This should work:

/^[0-9()+]*$/

The regex I gave you there also accepts the empty string. If you want to disallow empty then change the * near the end to a +.

Upvotes: 1

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