PCRE... and i thought i understood it

[silentace]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Whoops. I thought you wanted to allow "DEP" or "Civ" tacked onto the end of the string. Sorry, my bad.

This one should work.

/^(([0-9][A-Z][0-9][X13579][0-9])|(DEP|Civ))$/

My fault for not being so clear... is there any way that vB isn't translating it right? Regex Coach shows that works but vB still allows for lower case/upper case mixtures for DEP and Civ...

It doesn't however allow lower case like 2e2x1 so that is working right, but it allows dep and cIV

[Dismounted]

How are you "using" it in vBulletin?

[silentace]

yes, i only test it in regex coach after its not working in vbulletin to make sure i'm not crazy. but i get mixed results between the two.

one question... you always post it with a pre and post "/"

is that suppose to be in there? i always just use the ^ to the $

[Dismounted]

Please read my post again .

Originally Posted by Dismounted

How are you "using" it in vBulletin?

[silentace]

I have a custom profile field and then i have it displaying in posbits under username/title. It is a 5 character limited text field.



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[Marco van Herwaarden]

vBulletin by default adds the following modifiers: '#siU'

So it will always ignore case. Not enough of a PCRE expert myself to know how to force some words to case-sensitive again.

[Dismounted]

^(?-i)(([0-9][A-Z][0-9][X13579][0-9])|(DEP|Civ))$

[silentace]

i think we have success... you rock dismounted!

thanks for everyones help

so what did this do? "(?-i)"

[Dismounted]

Turns the following parenthesised statement to case sensitive, regardless of the modifiers. "(?i)" does the opposite.