RE: [PHP] preg_match problem

> You need to escape that forward slash in the character class: > > preg_match("/^[A-Za-z0-9!@#$%&()*;:_.'\/ > > Also, you've got only two backslashes in your char class. PHP is > reducing this to a single backslash before the space character. I > think you intend this to be two backslashes in the pattern so you > need four backslashes in PHP: > > preg_match("/^[A-Za-z0-9!@#$%&()*;:_.'\/\\\\ ]+$/", $string) > On top of this, every time a ' is entered it gets preceded by \. If I just check for the characters like below that doesn't happen. Totally confused. if(preg_match("/^[-A-Za-z0-9_.' ]+$/", $string)) {