I'm trying to find certain characters in a field and display and error or emove that sign now I want to allow: the @ sign but don't want to allow % , ; If I use this: elseif (preg_match('/[[:punct:]]/', $_POST['from'])){ echo "Punct error"; } It replies error for any @ entered but I want the @ symbol to be allowed. Also if a field contains say the word bcc I want a error to say the word bcc is not allowed or just to remove it. Is this possible? Ian Venta Sanlucar Sales

I've managed to do the code which is: function validate_from_field($s) { $forbidden = array('%', ',', ';', 'bcc'); foreach ($forbidden as $f) if (strpos($s, $f) !== false) return false; return true; } --- if (!validate_from_field($_POST['from'])) { echo "<h4>Sorry you have entered an invalid email address, please check and try again</h4>"; echo "Click here to return"; echo "<h4></h4>"; echo "<h4>If you are having problems with this form please email email@domain.com </h4>"; Venta Sanlucar Sales