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if (substr($name, 0, 1) ne [a-zA-Z]) {

?

How bout once more, this time with a description of what you're looking for?

From what I'm gathering, you're trying to gauge whether the first character of a string is a letter?

if ($name !~ /^[a-z]/i ) {

--mark

yes

thank you

[ 11-04-2001: Message edited by: CopyCat ]