Recent content by slimjimscot

Ok, I think I've figured it out; I needed to put another pipe (|) after the apostrophe and add a space: ^([[:alpha:]]|-|'| )+$ I hadn't realised that those pipe characters meant 'or'. All the best, Jim

HI, I am trying to find a regular expression that will validate a name entered in a form that consists of both a first name and a surname. In Larry Ullman's book he has an example for validating a first name: eregi ("^([[:alpha:]]|-|')+$", $name) But this doesn't work for me - I...

Thanks, that's it working now. I had been trying to insert the database name using a variable - which didnt' work; I hadn't got as far as using variables for the user and password, because I thought it wouldn't work. Fantastic - thanks for your help. And thanks for the include tip - I...

Hi, I'm writing a Perl CGI script to send a newsletter to e-mail addresses stored in a MySQL database. I have my script stored in a cgi-bin directory and I have a web form that I write a message into and it POSTs the results to the cgi. I can access the MySQL database ok using the DBI...