On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 19:09, Jim Lucas <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually... > > Specified here [1] it says that the {1,} is the same as '+'. I think you should > drop the comma. If you don't this would be valid 844-2345-123456 > > ^[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[2-9]{1,}[0-9]{2,}\-[0-9]{4,}$ > > should be > > ^[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}\-[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}\-[0-9]{4}$ Bah, you're absolutely correct. Force of habit with the commas. I didn't even notice the sample test cases I put into that test array didn't check for more than the number of digits per field, either. Good catch, Jim, and Happy New Year. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php