PHP regular expressions: No ending delimiter '^' found in

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fingerman picture fingerman · Jan 8, 2011 · Viewed 111.2k times · Source

I've been having some trouble with regular expressions.

This is my code 

$pattern = "^([0-9]+)$";

if (preg_match($pattern, $input))
   echo "yes";
else
   echo "nope";

I run it and get:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: No ending delimiter '^' found in

Answer

Kobi picture Kobi · Jan 8, 2011

PHP regex strings need delimiters. Try:

$numpattern="/^([0-9]+)$/";

Also, note that you have a lower case o, not a zero. In addition, if you're just validating, you don't need the capturing group, and can simplify the regex to /^\d+$/.

Example: http://ideone.com/Ec3zh

See also: PHP - Delimiters

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