Check out some Regular Expression code examples To learn more : http://www.weberdev.com/AdvancedSearch.php?searchtype=category&category=Rege xps Sincerely berber Visit the Weber Sites Today, To see where PHP might take you tomorrow. Uptime Monitor : http://uptime.weberdev.com SEO Data Monitor http://seo.weberdev.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrick [mailto:pafo@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:53 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Regular expression 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php