ereg

[Anon]

Hi,

how to check that a variable $name doesn't contain the following special characters.
[~`!@#$%^{&*()_+-={}[]|\"';:<>?,./],} using ereg() function

[knickerlas]

Looks tricky, why do you need to do that? (there are functions that take care of special chars)

Nick

[mrskhris]

Why don't you reverse the problem? Try to look at this this way:
Variable name can contain alphabetic chars and underscore char ('_'). Also, it have to start from a letter.