Re: Almost working Regex

Yes. > Did you try escaping it with the \? > > > At 04:51 PM 3/6/01 +1000, Murray Shields wrote: > >For data validation, I am using the following regex: > > > >$Status = (ereg("^(^[A-Za-z0-9` !@#$%&()=:;\"\'.?/^|{}-]*)(.*)$", $String, > >$List)); > > > >This works perfectly for the moment. However, I need to add both square > >brackets [] to the list of allowed characters above. > > > >But when I add the closinjg bracket ], the regex stops working. There are no > >errors, but it accepts any and all characters as valid. > > > >How can I add these additional characters to the regex and avoid this > >problem? > > > >Thanks. > > > >====================================================================== > >Murray Shields Email: murray@globalcat.com.au > >MU Systems Pty Ltd Phone: +61 7 3351 6677 > >Global Catalogs Pty Ltd Phone: +61 7 3351 4777 > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > ########################################################## > # Rick St Jean, > # rstjean@internet.look.ca > # President of Design Shark, > # http://www.designshark.com/ > # Quick Contact: http://www.designshark.com/messaging.ihtml > # Tel: 905-684-2952 > ########################################################## > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >