preg, patern quantifier limit

[Yann Larrivee]

Hi, i did a standard preg [A-Za-z0-9]{1,65536}

What i am simply trying to do is to validate the a form that will insert
into my TEXT database field. So i just want to prevent a larger insert
then expected.


PHP trows me this error "preg_match(): Compilation failed: number too
big in {} quantifier at offset 19 ..."


So it appears that quantifiers are limited. Anybody knows what that
limit is ?


Thanks

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Yann Larrivee <yannl@istop.com>

[Curt Zirzow]

* Thus wrote Yann Larrivee (yannl@istop.com):

> Hi, i did a standard preg [A-Za-z0-9]{1,65536}
>
> What i am simply trying to do is to validate the a form that will insert
> into my TEXT database field. So i just want to prevent a larger insert
> then expected.
>
>
> PHP trows me this error "preg_match(): Compilation failed: number too
> big in {} quantifier at offset 19 ..."
>
>
> So it appears that quantifiers are limited. Anybody knows what that
> limit is ?

It looks like it should be 65535, which makes more sense because
that is the unsigned word boundry.

if you inisist on having a 65536 limit use strlen with the preg
if (strlen($str) <= 65536 && preg_match('/[A-Za-z0-9]+/', $str)) {

HTH,

Curt
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[David Nicholson]

Hello,

This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Fri, 1 Aug 2003 at
20:35, lines prefixed by '>' were originally written by you.

> Hi, i did a standard preg [A-Za-z0-9]{1,65536}
> What i am simply trying to do is to validate the a form that will
> insert
> into my TEXT database field. So i just want to prevent a larger

insert

> then expected.
> PHP trows me this error "preg_match(): Compilation failed: number

too

> big in {} quantifier at offset 19 ..."
> So it appears that quantifiers are limited. Anybody knows what

that

> limit is ?

I can't help with your actual question, but I just thought I would
mention you can do what you are trying to do with...

if(strlen($text)>65536){
// too big
}

[url]http://php.net/strlen[/url]

David.

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