Re: Is it possible to parse a variable by character?

Christian, Thanks for pointing that out! Everything works excellently now! Now, all I have to do, is run another ereg_replace() to look for any duplicate full stops '.' and replace them with one, but I don't think that one will be to hard. For those of you interested, this is what the code looks like now: if(strlen($flf_desc)) { $f_loc_lower = strtolower($f_loc_name); $f_loc_new = ""; $f_loc_new = ereg_replace("[^_a-z0-9\.-]", "", $f_loc_lower); $f_loc_name = ""; $f_loc_name = $f_loc_new; $path = $destination.$f_loc_name; !file_exists($path) or die("Unable to copy $f_loc_name to location $URL_sitepath.<BR>Because $f_loc_name already exists there"); copy($f_loc, $path) or die("Unable to copy $f_loc_name to location $URL_sitepath. <b><BR>Please phone your admistrator immediatly ASAP</b>"); $flf_loc = $URL_sitepath.$f_loc_name; $f_loc = $flf_loc; $flf_name = "$f_loc_name"; $uploadline2 = "<b>$f_loc_name was uploaded succesfully.</b><br>"; $uploadline3 = "If you wish to give a path for your clients to download this file<BR>without having to log in, please send them this URL<BR><A HREF=\"$flf_loc\">$flf_loc</A>"; } Thanks the the help! Cheers, Sean On 4/18/01 5:08 AM, in article 01041814104906.00662@chrisbig, "Christian Reiniger" <creinig@mayn.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2001 12:00, you wrote: >>> Warning: REG_ERANGE in >>> /home/httpd/www/worldvibe.org/digitall/edit_f.php on line 91 >>> >>> Here are lines surrounding 91: >>> >>> 89-> strtolower($f_loc_name); >>> 90-> $f_loc_new = ""; >>> 91-> $f_loc_new = ereg_replace("[^[_a-z0-9-\.]]", "", >>> $f_loc_name); >>> 92-> $f_loc_name = ""; >>> 93-> $f_loc_name = $f_loc_new; >> >> $f_loc_new = ereg_replace("[^_a-z0-9-\.]", "", $f_loc_name); > > That, and because the dash needs to be the last character in the > character class: > $f_loc_new = ereg_replace("[^_a-z0-9.-]", "", $f_loc_name); >