eref, textarea, line breaks

[ppgpilot]

my ereg code works well until it encounters a line break, then will not resolve the string. Take a look and see if you can find a solution...

if(!ereg("^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.!#\$&\*\+\=\(\)-:\"\', /\\%])*$", $notes))
This is the "notes" text that goes into the textarea textarea text:

This is the text that goes into the textarea to:

1) see if it works
2) see what it looks like
3) quit this part of the script

so that is it for now you guy's! end


Thanks for your help!!

David

[grahame]

The short answer is that you probably want to add \n if you're looking to eliminate "naughty" characters but accept new lines.

But you might do better to use strspn, or strcspn. And I'm not sure of your context - have you seen stripslashes and its friends?

[ppgpilot]

Thanks for your reply Grahame.

Adding \n\r\t took care of the problem and Thanks!!

I am using stripslashes and mysql_escape_string as necessery.

I don't know about strspn or strcspn, but will check them both now.

Stripslashes is all I am familiar with... what else is in its family?

Thanks for your help!!

David