note 78417 deleted from function.preg-match by felipe

Note Submitter: erandra at gmail dot com ---- Here is a sample code to check for alphabetic characters only with an exception to space, hyphen and single quotes using preg_match(). $alpha = "some very funny string'9-2'"; /* check for alphabets and hyphens, quotes and space in the string but no numbers */ if(preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z\-\'\ ]+$/u", $alpha)){ return 1; }else return 0; one can just add a '\' followed by the character he wish to allow for use [\@]. i hope it would be helpful to some one their. -Erandra