On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 13:18 -0300, Jo?o C?ndido de Souza Neto wrote: > May be this: > > /.*?[(@#$%].*/ > > "Floyd Resler" <fres...@adex-intl.com> escreveu na mensagem > news:3c7c9ee4-786e-4447-859e-ad0556359...@adex-intl.com... > I need to test for the existence of at least one punctuation (@#$%') > character in a string. What would my regular expression be? > > Thanks! > Floyd > > >
You don't need the . character there to match anything. Also, ( and $ have a special meaning in regex, so should be escaped to avoid any confusion or problems. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk