Re: PHP preg_match() help

I think that the perl regular expressions in PHP are the same as in perl.

If you want to match everything but the ;, the quote and the apostrophes, you 
need to use

[^;'"]*

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Storm Dragon" <bluescale1976@xxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: PHP preg_match() help


> Hi,
> I am having a bit of a problem. I was never good at the PHP preg_match()
> function.  I am working on a website for a client andI need to be able
> to accept anything except ; and space.  Well, actually I really need to
> make sure a url is in proper format.  The problem is, it could be any
> url and they can be so different.  I want to protect against sql
> injection attacks, so I figured getting rid of ; and space would go a
> log way toward that end.  I suppose no " or ' would be good too, I can't
> think of any urls with either of those in them, but it's late and I am
> tired, so can't be sure.
> Thanks for any help.
> BlueScale
> 
>
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