Steve, I think this is the pattern you're looking for.
^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*[\$|@|#|\^|_|\*]).{ 8,127} If you include the following lookahead (?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9]) Then that basically negates the special characters pattern because it's saying "none of the characters in the string should be non-alphanumeric". Hope that helps. Steve Brownlee http://www.fusioncube.net/ -----Original Message----- From: Steve LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regex Help Bobby, I get an "invalid token | found" error. To answer your question my match is predicated on one of these characters (@#$^_*) being present. ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9@|#|\$|\ ^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$ ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[ @|#|\$|\^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$ Steve LaBadie, Web Manager East Stroudsburg University 200 Prospect St. East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301 570-422-3999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.esu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269511 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4