regular expression
 

I'm a php'er that needs to match any positive number with up to 2 decimal places using ereg. I see lots of regex examples for floating points, but none that limit the number of decimal places. Can anyone help by providing an example for this specific match?

Hi,
I need more info.
Do you want to find only numbers with 2 or less decimals and not ones with more?
or, do you want to find all numbers and the ones with more than 2 decimals, chop off the extra numbers.

Not sure how usefull my reply will be since i don't know PHP, but what you might want to try (if PHP has dynamic variable typing like Perl) is to test the value as a string and then check for the period follow by certain number of digits:
Something along these lines:
/^[^-][\d]+(.[\d]{1,2})?$/
[^-] => no minus signs
[\d]+ => match one or more digits
(.[\d]{1, 2})? => either nothing or a period followed by upto 2 digits.

here is a PHP program that should do what you want.
just copy it to a file and run it at the command line
let know if you need more help
michael


#!/usr/bin/php

<?php

$varSet = array("1", "2.0", "3.1", "4.21", "5.321", "6.4321", "7.54", "-8.65", "-9.765");

for ($n = 0; $n < 9; $n++)
{
if (ereg("^[^-]+((\.)([[:digit:]]{0,2}))$", $varSet[$n]))
{
printf("%s\n", $varSet[$n]);
}
}

?>