note 55310 added to ref.regex

His regular expression is correct, the ^ is to check for the beginning of the string. It is just looking for delimiter characters, try putting slashes around it. "/<regex>/" ---- Submitter IP: 66.207.199.35 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55310 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55310&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55310&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55310&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55310&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55310&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55310&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55310&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php