> You need to escape that forward slash in the character class:
>
> preg_match("/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&()*;:_.'\/
>
> Also, you've got only two backslashes in your char class. PHP is
> reducing this to a single backslash before the space character. I
> think you intend this to be two backslashes in the pattern so you
> need four backslashes in PHP:
>
> preg_match("/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&()*;:_.'\/\\\\ ]+$/", $string)
>
On top of this, every time a ' is entered it gets preceded by \. If I just
check for the characters like below that doesn't happen. Totally confused.
if(preg_match("/^[-A-Za-z0-9_.' ]+$/", $string)) {
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