preg_match help

[Richard]

I made the following script, but if the user's ip is for example 102.05.62.1 then it still redirects to down.php.

I want it to check if 62. is at the beginning of the ip, not in the rest of it (like 62.152.15.2) and only redirect to down.php if it is at the beginning - how ?

<?
$ipad="$REMOTE_ADDR";

if (preg_match ("/62./", "$ipad")) {
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"00; url=http://www.whatever.com/down.php\">";
} else {
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"00; url=http://www.whatever.com/xcd.php\">";
}
?>

[Ökii]

just use substr($ipad,0,2) - quicker and less resources used.

[Richard]

Thanks :):)

[Kiwi]

the regex you wanted was:
/^62\./

You need to tell it to match only at the start of the string, and to escape the .