I have a user-input string with 2 comma-delimited integers.
Example (OK):
3,5
I want to reject any user input that contains leading 0's for either number.
Examples (Bad):
03,5
00005,3
05,003
Now what I could do is separate the two numbers into 2 separate string
's and use ltrim
on each one, then see if they have changed from before ltrim
was executed:
$string = "03,5";
$string_arr = explode(",",$string);
$string_orig1 = $string_arr[0];
$string_orig2 = $string_arr[1];
$string_mod1 = ltrim($string_orig1, '0');
$string_mod2 = ltrim($string_orig2, '0');
if (($string_mod1 !== $string_orig1) || ($string_mod2 !== $string_orig2)){
// One of them had leading zeros!
}
..but this seems unnecessarily verbose. Is there a cleaner way to do this? Perhaps with preg_match
?