Hey all I just finished chapter 7 and I don't know about other readers but the way ereg and eregi was explained makes my head what not explode! Does anyone know a website or something that can help me with the complex syntaxes and crazyness of ereg in general. I mean I get the basic stuff like

if (ereg("[^0-9]",$Number,$Reg))... would accept $Number if it HAD 0-9 but stuff like...

$TheResult = ereg("^[^@ ]+@[^@ ]+\.[^@ \.]+$", $Address, $Trash); in the e-mail program blows my mind!

I have the same issue with the grep command in linux but thats not as much of an issue. Any help would be loved, thanks...

- TreeWalker

Yeah. Tell me about it. I just finished that chapter and man....whew... basically you just have to know what each character stands for and it makes more sence. They have charts on pages 246-249 that explain what each character means.

Hope that helps,
LOTIC

Im sorry if I keep killing you, it's just that you make such a fine target!