Re: is this correct? regular expressions

At 23:22 25.03.2003, Jay Paulson said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >just trying to say if $phone isn't all numbers set it to all zeros.. so is >that right? cause i can't seem to get it to work. > > if (!ereg("^[0-9]$",$phone)) { > $phone = "0000000000"; > } > >thanks! --------------------[snip]-------------------- This is "if $phone is anything else than a single digit". You need to add either a plus or an asterisk after the closing bracket to denote multiple instances of the character set: if (!ereg("^[0-9]*$",$phone)) { You could also check if anything _not_ being a number exists within $phone: if (ereg("[^0-9]",$phone)) { -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/