Hi, I am trying to validate a password, but havent figured out the pattern for it yet. The password must contain atleast 6 characters a-zA-Z0-9_ must start with a a-zA-Z and must have atleast one of the following characters !#%&$£ correct passwords would be: a#aAb08 Plkpod! t09_#8T U_p#q#Pq i was trying something like this, but it dosent seem to work: ^[a-zA-Z]{1}[!#%&$]+[a-zA-Z0-9_]+ Patrick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php