Regular Expression problems.

[holtom]

I have put in a check for characters/ numbers and punctions as told by many source, but for some reason it it not working as espected and I'm banging my head on the PC now.  Could anyone help.

 

if(!ereg("^[0-9A-Za-z'\" \\,\.!;:£\?\$&\+=/-@#%]{1,255}$",$body)){

        $bodytest++;

}

 

For some reason the code increments $bodytest if $body contains ` ¬ etc... but if it contains  < > it does not.. but for th life of me I have not included the < > in the code to be allowed in the text.  Could anyone help me please?