Re: ereg function

In article <002e01c0e46c$ec2459a0$6e00a8c0@webdesign>, jpaulson@lbjs.com ("Jay Paulson") wrote: > echo ereg("^[a-zA-Z]$", $fname); > > as you can see I'm just looking to make sure the variable $fname just has > characters a-zA-Z and nothing else. Actually, you're checking whethere the variable is a single-character string a-zA-Z. For what you want: ereg("^[a-zA-Z]+$", $fname); //add plus sign Note also that although the docs imply that ereg() returns an integer value, it says further down "Returns true if a match for pattern was found in string, or false if no matches were found or an error occurred." In my experience, boolean values don't echo well. Try this instead: if(ereg("^[a-zA-Z]+$", $fname)) { echo "<p>Passed!</p>\n"; } else { echo "<p>Failed. Enter a different value.</p>\n"; } -- CC