Re: Re: invalid range

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Nick Eby wrote: > looks like because you have a dash inside your character class; when inside > a character class the dash is a special character and you'd have to escape > it > eregi("^([a-zedv_\.\- ]+)$", $value); Traditionally in regexes, a dash has to come last, otherwise the regex engine interprets it as a range. Escaping it may work too, but I've never had trouble moving dashes to the last char in the range, so your regex would look like this: eregi("^([a-zedv_\. -]+)$",$value); -- Morgan Hughes C programmer and highly caffeinated mammal. kyhm@kyhm.com ICQ: 79293356