Im trying to match 24H time in pregmatch and alow spaces and date to be appended on the back.
Im only interested in the time which is the first 5 chars.
so time (first 5 chars) and any thing after that should be allowed, but ignored.
example 23:20 2014-09-29
How far off am I?
$time = '10:30';
$pattern = '~^([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9])$~i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $time, $m)) {
print_r(" THATS IS A WRAP");
} else {
print_r(" INVALID TIME ");
}
example 23:20 2014-09-29
Just remove the $ anchor:
$time = '10:30';
$pattern = '~^([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9])~';
// here __^
if (preg_match($pattern, $time, $m)) {
print_r(" THATS IS A WRAP");
} else {
print_r(" INVALID TIME ");
}
Also, the /i modifier is superfluous here because there are not any letters.
^([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9])$
Try this.You were not far.Just that you were not matching am or pm .See demo.