In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Janet Valade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
if you include a hyphen in a character class, it must be the
last entry in the range, otherwise it is interepreted as the
range separator.
[0-9+.\()-]
is what you want (probably have to escape some of the
chars above).
Jeff
> I am using the following statement to check phone numbers.
>
> if (!ereg("^[0-9\-\+\.\ \)\(]{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 .
>
> Janet
>
>
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