Regular Expression

Hi, I have this ereg call ereg("([-d])[rwxst-]{9}.* [0-9]* [a-zA-Z]+ [0-9: ]* (.+)",$dirline,$regs); This regular expressions parses the following line: drwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 0 Nov 5 23:19 fantasy to return: fantasy (or in general any filename/directory name) The above regular expression works fine in every except when the filename is something like this: drwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 0 Nov 5 23:19 6 fantasy Notice in this case the filename is "6 fantasy" however $regs[1] returns only: "fantasy" Can anyone help me to fix this problem. Thanks a bunch