Am partially successfull after taking a further look into things. the following
(while ugnly) correctly catches everything except the \ character for some
reason. ideas?
if(preg_match("/['".'" ,!@#$%\^&*()+=\/\\:;?|]/',$MyString)){
# echo error, character found
}
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jack Dempsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Try searching for anything that's not a word character:
>if(preg_match("/\W/",$mystring))
>that should return true if it matches anything except for a letter,
>number, or _...
Will likely switch to that syntax for brevity sake.
>your regex didn't work because you didn't use /'s at the beginning and
>end of your regex...
caught this one after further review of the regex documentation
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