On 13 Jul 2005, at 15:12, Bob Sawyer wrote:

> I think the placement of the caret is wrong. Try:
>
> if (ereg("^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\']", $text)) {

Thanks Bob,

That didnt work unfortunately, but after some further experimenting i  
managed to get it working by removing the escapes & switching the  
apostrophe & hyphen round - although im slightly confused as to why  
this is so....

if (ereg("[^a-z A-Z0-9'-]", $text)) {

cheers,
Riquez


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