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shan_cool

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Hi all,
I hav a text field in which the data must be provided in A233784545 format. i mean the intial starting letter must b a character and all other letters can either be numeric or characters.... help me how to validate this.... am using PHP .

Rhds,
Shan...
Chennai,
India.
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Hi all,
I hav a text field in which the data must be provided in A233784545 format. i mean the intial starting letter must b a character and all other letters can either be numeric or characters.... help me how to validate this.... am using PHP .

Rhds,
Shan...
Chennai,
India.
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PHP
if(preg_match("/^[a-Z]\w+/",$text_field)) { }

will match a string starting with a word character and continues with 1 or more word characters
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