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Re: Regex to Match two letters

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From "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject Re: Regex to Match two letters
Date Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:07:20 +0100
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Eric wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 5:30:00 PM UTC, Eric wrote:

>> Completely new to this but the following REGEX to match only two
>> letters fails.
>> 
>> preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z]{2}$/','TZ');
>> 
>> This returns false.
> 
> This is returning false for me. Really strange. on php 5.4.16

Yes, that is really strange, because on <http://3v4l.org/n0lRc> it
returns 1 under PHP 5.4.16.  Do you have a custom build or a
non-standard PCRE version?

Please try to avoid the broken Google Groups for posting to Usenet
newsgroups.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Regex to Match two letters Eric <ekoome@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-25 09:29 -0800
  Re: Regex to Match two letters "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-25 19:08 +0100
  Re: Regex to Match two letters Eric <ekoome@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-25 10:53 -0800
    Re: Regex to Match two letters "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-25 20:07 +0100
    Re: Regex to Match two letters Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-11-25 20:17 +0100
    Re: Regex to Match two letters Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-11-25 14:17 -0500
      Re: Regex to Match two letters "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-25 20:35 +0100
        Re: Regex to Match two letters Eric <ekoome@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-25 12:55 -0800
          Re: Regex to Match two letters Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-11-26 10:12 +0100
            Re: Regex to Match two letters Eric <ekoome@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-26 01:46 -0800
            Re: Regex to Match two letters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-11-30 07:21 +0100
              Re: Regex to Match two letters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-30 13:07 +0100
                Re: Regex to Match two letters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-11-30 19:47 +0100
                Re: Regex to Match two letters Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-11-30 20:21 +0100

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