Hello Rick, Thursday, January 27, 2005, 12:36:39 PM, you wrote: R> /^(1?[1-9]|[12]0)$/ works too. The first part covers 1-9, 11-19; R> the second part gets you 10 and 20. R> Plus, it's ever so slightly shorter! And isnt' that what's most R> important? :P Purty!!!! :grin: -- Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 3.0.2.3 Rush under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php