Re: form validation :ereg ()

In article <F62eq5Z3JjQWrBSXaD800004bee@hotmail.com>, "kaab kaoutar" <kaab_k@hotmail.com> wrote: If you wish to include a hyphen in the allowed character list of a pattern match, you must include it as the last character. So what you want should be more like: if (eregi("[^a-zA-Zëàéêêàäïüöûâç-]",$name)) { print("your name can't include non-letter, etc...."); } You can add space with: [:space:] within the charachter class ([^a-zA-Z[:space:]ëàéêêàäïüöûâç-]) Jeff > Hi again! > > I still did not fix my prob : I want to check, in a form, that the name > input may include an alphabetical letter a- z, A-Z, or a space, or -, > or à, or ä or ü etc how can i do that ? i used > ereg("([a-z,A-Z][ë,à]?)",$name) then > (!ereg("([a-z,A-Z,é,ê,è,ë,-,\t,à,ä,ï,ü,ö,û,â,ç])", $name)) > i get the following warnin :REG_ERANGE:,invalid character range by the > way how to add space " " and "-" ? > > Please help! > > Thanks > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com. > > >