Do a search on the php website or the php offline manual for "Pattern Syntax" -----Original Message----- From: janbro [mailto:janbro@xxxxxx] Sent: 07 July 2005 15:30 To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Question to eregi Syntax ************************************* This e-mail has been received by the Revenue Internet e-mail service. ************************************* 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 ************************ This message has been delivered to the Internet by the Revenue Internet e-mail service ************************* -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php