hello all, for the life of me i cant figure out the reg exp PHP manual, can someone please help me with ereg_replace() or preg_replace() in PHP. i have a string wherein i want to replace all occurences of characters outside of "a-z0-9" with nothing. tia, sib --------------------------------------------------------- A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net