Did you try escaping it with the \?
At 04:51 PM 3/6/01 +1000, Murray Shields wrote:
>For data validation, I am using the following regex:
>
>$Status = (ereg("^(^[A-Za-z0-9` !@#$%&()=:;\"\'.?/^|{}-]*)(.*)$", $String,
>$List));
>
>This works perfectly for the moment. However, I need to add both square
>brackets [] to the list of allowed characters above.
>
>But when I add the closinjg bracket ], the regex stops working. There are no
>errors, but it accepts any and all characters as valid.
>
>How can I add these additional characters to the regex and avoid this
>problem?
>
>Thanks.
>
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