Source for file MatchValidator.php
Documentation is available at MatchValidator.php
* $Id: MatchValidator.php 521 2007-01-05 13:29:36Z heltem $
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* A validator for regular expressions.
* This validator will return true, when the passed value *matches* the
* ## This class replaces the former class MaskValidator ##
* If you do want to test if the value does *not* match an expression,
* you can use the MatchValidator class instead.
* Below is an example usage for your Propel xml schema file.
* <column name="email" type="VARCHAR" size="128" required="true" />
* <validator column="username">
* <!-- allow strings that match the email adress pattern -->
* value="/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([\.a-zA-Z0-9_-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9])+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)+$/"
* message="Please enter a valid email address." />
* @author Michael Aichler <aichler@mediacluster.de>
* @author Hans Lellelid <hans@xmpl.org>
* @version $Revision: 521 $
* @package propel.validator
* Prepares the regular expression entered in the XML
* for use with preg_match().
* @return string Prepared regular expession.
private function prepareRegexp($exp)
// remove surrounding '/' marks so that they don't get escaped in next step
if ($exp{0} !== '/' || $exp{strlen($exp)- 1} !== '/' ) {
// if they did not escape / chars; we do that for them
* Whether the passed string matches regular expression.
public function isValid (ValidatorMap $map, $str)
return (preg_match($this->prepareRegexp($map->getValue()), $str) != 0);
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