in reply to validation of posted data.

A minor point but your regex allows "" (the empty string) to be used as a valid username.

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Re: Re: validation of posted data.
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2002 at 16:03 UTC
    hi there, i have a seperate piece of code to validate blanks anlong with usernames > 20 < 3 chars
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      All of that can be done in a regex: 
      /\A\w{3,20}\z/

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      Will match only word sequences that are 3 to 20 characters long ONLY.

      Yves / DeMerphq
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