RE: [PHP] Regex question

> If you want the [ to be escaped in the regex you have to "double-escape" it: > $x = "\ \["; (sorry, the two \ should be together without a space but my > stupid mail-app converts the string thinking it's an network address) > so $x will contain "\[" as you want ( the first backslash escapes the > second). Hi Stefan, Thanks very much for that, it does make sense :-) Unfortunately it still hasn't fixed the problem... I suppose my question has now boiled down to "do I need to escape !, <, or - in a regex?" :-) Cheers Jon