Cold Fusion has RegEx to do this with. If I want to search a string looking for anything non 0-9 and non a-z what should I be looking at? Could I do: $EXPR = "non a-z, non numerical"; strstr($SEARCH_STRING, $EXPR) I hope this makes sense, I am not sure what PHP calls this type of searching but in Cold Fusion it is called REGEX. Any suggestions on where I can look in the php documentation to read more about this? Matt Babineau MCWD / CCFD ----------------------------------------- e: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 603.943.4237 w: <http://www.criticalcode.com/> http://www.criticalcode.com PO BOX 601 Manchester, NH 03105