Hiya there, I have another newbie question for you good people out there. It's to do with splitting UK postcodes. I've got some of it worked out but wonder if you could lend any further advice. So far I've got: - [code] // Validate with this if(!ereg("[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][0-9A-Z]? [0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{1,2}", strtoupper($postcode))) { } // Get outbound section with this $outpc=explode(" ",$dat['postcode']); $outbound=$outpc[1] [/code] I need to end up with three varaibles; the full code (rh1 1nn), the outbound code (rh1), and the area code from the outbound (rh). The first two were easy but I don't know of a way to get the third. As uk postcodes can be both 1 and 2 a-z characters before the number. So I don't know if there is anyway to extract from the string up to the first number. I'd be grateful for any advice you could lend or maybe even a cleaner way of finding all three. Thanks in advance, Milk.