note 55323 deleted from function.ereg by nlopess

Note Submitter: ---- In relation to the previous poster's comments: "Beware that eregs in PHP4 are broken, for instance if you want to match "a to z, 0,9 and -" you might want to use [a-z0\-9] but it will silently fail due to a bug : the \ don't escape some special chars, so this regexp is equivalent to [a-z0-9] ! Also putting \[ or \] inside the brackets (to match for a bracket) doesn't work, or raises an error, but curiously putting the \- at the end works. So if you want to match '[a-z\|\[\]]' you have to type '([a-z]|\-|\[\|])'" To make the backslash escape character work with ereg you simply need to just use \\. For instance the example the user gave: "a to z, 0,9 and -" And used the syntax "[a-z0\-9]" you would simply change it to "[a-z0\\-9]" and it works fine.