RE: [PHP] Why would this eregi() function not work?

> ... escaping isn't necessary. Thanks so much for all the helpful advice! Okay, included the + character, and removed the escaping. And I know I'm supposed to checking into preg_match, but I'm looking at this as an opportunity to learn about regular expressions, so I still have a question. I'm confused why hyphens wouldn't still need escaping. Hyphens are used to express a range of characters. If there's a hyphen there, won't PHP think I'm looking for a range from nothing to nothing? Or is it clever enough to figure out what's going on? (!eregi('^[a-zA-Z0-9+_.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+$', $email) -- Cheers! Dave G ml@autotelic.com