In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janet Valade) wrote:

>  if (!ereg("^[0-9\-\+\.\ \)\(]{10,}$",$value)) {
> 
> Can anyone tell me why this works for every character except the -. It
> doesn't see the hyphen as a valid part of the phone number, even though it
> recognizes the other characters, e.g. + or .

Try:
if (!ereg("^[0-9+. )(-]{10,}$",$value))

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