Hi List, my research hasn't turned anything useful up. Probably 'cause I don't have enough info. I've been playing around with the ereg function. What I was wondering is what is the ^ for like in the below example? ereg('[^[:space:]a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{1,}', $name) thx janbro -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php