[thelist] [regexp] I'm lost

[Paul Bennett]

ok, I want to allow entries containing only numbers (0-9),any case of 
letters (a-zA-Z), '(', ')', '_', '-', and spaces.
Formatting a regular expression to check for this is somewhat confusing. 
I have been through a couple of tutorials, and checked the php.net 
manual pages for eregi() but am not making any progress.
here is what I have -
(for non-php coders - eregi is a non case-sensitive regexp function)
if(eregi('^[a-zA-z0-9]|\\(\\)\\-\\_+$', $value))
            {return true;}
        else
            {return false;}

am I even close? (Results attest otherwise)

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