Re: Makeing rules in Regex for string content and size

in reply to Makeing rules in Regex for string content and size

A slightly shorter version of corion's nice explanation above would be:
/^[\w ,"&-']{4,16}$/ Updated: Caveat - This will also allow underscores which is probably not what you want. Kudos to corion

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RE: Re: Makeing rules in Regex for string content and size by gaspodethewonderdog (Monk) on Jun 06, 2000 at 17:45 UTC
then why not just do: /^A-Z0-9 ,"&-'{4,16}$/i in the first place	[reply]
RE: Re: Makeing rules in Regex for string content and size by gaspodethewonderdog (Monk) on Jun 06, 2000 at 17:46 UTC
then why not just do: /^[A-Z0-9 ,"&\-']{4,16}$/i in the first place	[reply]

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