try that: ereg("^[a-zA-Z]+") "Priya Chanu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello Everyone , > > I am a beginner with regular expression. > > I want a string to be on only alphabets both upper and > lower case. > > So to check it i do the following: > > $vorname = "myname"; > if(ereg("([a-z])",$vorname,$name)) > { > print "formerror=false"; > } > else > { > print "formerror=TRUE"; > } > > i always get the messge "formerror=false" no matter if > i replace the $vorname with something like > "343dfsdfsdf". > > Can some one help me in advance. > > priya > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Find a job, post your resume. > http://careers.yahoo.com
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