looks like because you have a dash inside your character class; when inside a character class the dash is a special character and you'd have to escape it
eregi("^([a-zåäö_\.\- ]+)$", $value); "Peter A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... when I do this eregi("^([a-zåäö_\.- ]+)$",$value); I get this: Warning: Invalid range end in /home/zinekweb/public_html/corporate/_mcm_contacts_upload.php on line 42 Why? I running Apache1.3 on my XP machine with PHP 4.2something.. but when I upload to a RedHat7.2 server with Apache.1.3 and PHP4.0something I get this error. Can anyone help me out here? Any clues? /peter a -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php