regex address problem

[Stickybomb]

 

 

i made this regex value

 

^[0-9]{1,5}\s[[a-zA-Z0-9]*[\sa-zA-Z0-9]*[aAvVeEsSrRdDtT]{2,3}\.?\s[nNsSeEwW][\.\s]?[nNsSeEwW][\.]?$

(1111 somewhere st se| 1111 somewhere st. s.e. | 1111 east st st. n.w.)  <-- all work in tester

 

to check an address in php running it through eregi and for some reason the regex accepts the data i am inuting in the regexlib.net teseter but it does not in my script any help with this would be great

 

 

 

thks

 

stickybomb

 

[effigy]

...running it through eregi...

 

See this post again.

[Stickybomb]

i did what you said in the other post, but it gave me an error. it did not like the whole\z thing and then no matter what i did it gave me a end delimiter error. so i revamped the regex and tried it with eregi again, the other values worked fine though. So basically using preg this regex does not work either. I am sorry if i am a little troublesome i am completely new to the use of regex. in the other post you said not to use shorthand? what exactyl is shorthand, of this I was unsure.

 

 

[effigy]

What kind of error? I'm guessing it was about delimiters since ereg does not use them, while preg does.

 

Shorthands are the \letter notations; see this for more information. In preg \s matches whitespace; in ereg \s matches "s".

[Stickybomb]

the error with preg its giving me is

 

Warning: No ending delimiter '^' found

 

this is using the same regex above

 

also if \s is shorthand what is the non shorthand for a white space.

[effigy]

Warning: No ending delimiter '^' found

 

In addition to the docs, see these for an explanation of delimiters:

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,126178.msg524875.html#msg524875

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95777.0.html

 

also if \s is shorthand what is the non shorthand for a white space.

 

[ \f\n\r\t\v]

 

If you're working with Unicode, use \p{Z}