<<first way:
if(ereg('([^0-9]|^)'.$your_number.'([^0-9]|$)',$_REQUEST['numbers'])
) second way:
$numbers=explode(',',$_REQUEST['numbers']);
if(in_array($your_number,$numbers))>>Not sure I get this but, again, I can't use $_REQUEST or explode or in_array at this point. The entire process needs to happen in the shell_exec() command, because I'd much rather have that handle the whole shebang than PHP. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

