[snip] Ahhhh....not PCRE. Can't help you there, as I've never used the ereg functions. However... preg_match ( "/\((\d{1,}.*?)\)/", "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs ); [/snip] Still returns parentheses ereg("[^\(][0-9\.]*" , "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs ); gets rid of opening bracket, but ereg("[^\(][0-9\.]*[^\)]" , "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs ); doesn't -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php