Hi > I want to allow the following: a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9, and "_-'" (without > the double quotes) and spaces. I have now been screwing around with this for > over 8 hours. There are other issues as well that has been compoudning this, > but this would be a great start to solving my issue. I don't use ereg (prefer preg_match) but unless the regex syntax is greatly different try: "$[\w'-]+$" Niel -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php