Hi,
I'm using a regex to allow input of some HTML markup into a form field but the field is still acceptable if it is empty. Here is what I'm using which seems to be validating in the way I want it to except if the field is empty then I get a false. 

if ($contents != /^[\w \.\,\=\" \/<>]+$/ ){
$contentserror = "Error - message.";++$error;
}

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My question is: Can you please give me an example of how I can allow the field to be empty but only validate against the regex above if it has any characters in it.

I guess I could hack it by saying this first 

if ($contents = ""){
$contents = "\s";
}

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and then put it through the regex but that is a real mess.

Any ideas, I've done a few searches but can't find anything to help me out there.

Many thanks
Sid

20040318 Edit by Corion: Added code tags

In reply to Allow empty form fields regex by Hissingsid

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