...
...- allow apostrophes, but only if preceded *and* followed by a Alpha/Extend - allow hyphen/dash, but only if preceded *and* followed by a Alpha/Extend
hi walter, how about something like this:
<?php
$_alpha = 'a-zA-Z'; // standard latin letters $_xascii = '\x80-\xFF'; // extended ascii-codes $_achar = $_alpha.$_xascii; // allowed characters
$regex = '/^['.$_achar.']+(\'|-)['.$_achar.']+$/';
?>
hth SVEN
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