Re: Regex problem

$sNoSpaces = ltrim($variable); if ('*' == $sNoSpaces[0]) .... -- Regards, ---------------------------------------------- Calin Uioreanu calin@ciao-ag.com Tel: +49 - (0) 89 - 25 55 17 23 http://www.ciao.com ---------------------------------------------- "Leon Mergen" <leon@blazebox.com> wrote in message news:002f01c15d2a$e4ca3030$012aa8c0@leon... Hi there, I am camping with a little regular expressions problem... Problem: I want to check if $variable begins with a * (star), and it doesn't matter if it starts with plenty of spaces... My solution: ereg("^[:space:]*\*",$variable) But, it doesn't seem to work with the space part... The regex: ereg("^\*",$variable) does work, but that doesn't include spaces at the start... How can I extend this one so that it doesn't matter if there are a lot of spaces at the begin? Thanks in advance, Leon Mergen