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Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters [message #181231 is a reply to message #181230] Mon, 22 April 2013 11:29 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Thomas 'PointedEars'  is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Christoph Becker wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> A numeric column is *your* idea. The questions I have answered were the
>> ones that were *actually* asked:
>>
>> | Is there a simple way in PHP to restrict input to the ASCII Character
>> | set, specifically hex 0x20 - 0x7E ? Or a simple way to detect
>> | characters outside this range before committing them to the database?
>
> The OP had reported that users sometimes enter a slashed zero instead of
> a "normal" zero. In a column of type "char" or "varchar" this might not
> matter too much, so I thought the problem might be related to numeric
> columns instead. Therefore, I had written:
>
> | If you're dealing with a numeric column, [...]
> ^^

And again, I was _not_ referring to that. I wrote:

>>> Testing against '/[^\0x00-\x7F]/', and rejecting anything that matches,
>>> appears to be the best approach here.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


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