[PHP] Re: Quickly verifying single word.

[Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tyson Vanover wrote:
> I need a quick way to make sure that a string is a single word with no 
> white spaces.  I would prefer that it is a command that could fit on a 
> single line.  Or at least an if block.
>
> I have a few thoughts on this but it involves things like explode(), 
> stripslashes(), etc.

if (strpos($string, ' ') === false) {
//may not work for tabs, newlines etc
	echo 'No spaces!';
}


if (preg_match('/[\s]*/', $string) === false) {
	echo 'No spaces!';
}

-Shawn

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