checking for Euro currency symbol in regexp

[Kevin]

Hi, I want to check that a string entered via a from contains the only
cdertain characters including the Euro currency symbol using a reg exp
in PHP.

I've set my web page to use charset=iso-8859-15 and tried

$allowed = "[^-a-zA-Z0-9.:,!+£$ \\ ". chr(128) ."]";
if ( ereg( $allowed, $str) )


but the ereg regects any string containing the symbol.

Any help would be great,

Kevin

[Andy Hassall]

Re: checking for Euro currency symbol in regexp

On 3 Dec 2003 09:32:56 -0800, kml12001@yahoo. co.uk (Kevin) wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hi, I want to check that a string entered via a from contains the only
>cdertain characters including the Euro currency symbol using a reg exp
>in PHP.
>
>I've set my web page to use charset=iso-8859-15 and tried
>
>$allowed = "[^-a-zA-Z0-9.:,!+£$ \\ ". chr(128) ."]";
>if ( ereg( $allowed, $str) )
>
>but the ereg regects any string containing the symbol.[/color]

128 is not a valid printable character in iso-8859-15.
The code for Euro is 164.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15

It's only 128 in Microsoft Codepage 1252.

http://www.kostis.net/charsets/cp1252.htm

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