regex writing help

[syktek]

looking to write a regular expressions that checks:
<? but if <?php appears send alert.

var validate= /^[\<\?][^\<\?php]*$/

isn't working, hopefully someone can help me in the right direction.

TIA

[syktek]

so i was looking into this a little more and thought maybe i could use <?[^pP] but that doesn't seem to help...grrr

[eelixduppy]

Try something like this as the pattern:

/<\?php/

If a match comes back, send alert.