$sNoSpaces = ltrim($variable); if ('*' == $sNoSpaces[0]) .... --
Regards, ---------------------------------------------- Calin Uioreanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 - (0) 89 - 25 55 17 23 http://www.ciao.com ---------------------------------------------- "Leon Mergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 002f01c15d2a$e4ca3030$012aa8c0@leon">news:002f01c15d2a$e4ca3030$012aa8c0@leon... Hi there, I am camping with a little regular expressions problem... Problem: I want to check if $variable begins with a * (star), and it doesn't matter if it starts with plenty of spaces... My solution: ereg("^[:space:]*\*",$variable) But, it doesn't seem to work with the space part... The regex: ereg("^\*",$variable) does work, but that doesn't include spaces at the start... How can I extend this one so that it doesn't matter if there are a lot of spaces at the begin? Thanks in advance, Leon Mergen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]