What's the right way to use ereg with spaces?

[fintan]

Hi I need to search for a users name in a column in a database. Something like this

if(ereg('John Doe', $rsmvopen->Fields('DESCRIPTION'))){
echo 'yes';
}

I can get John and Doe but I can't get 'John Doe'. How do you account for the space? Thanks

fintan.

[chriswragg]

No sure exactly but take a look at this reference site [regular-expressions.info], I'm sure it will be on there somewhere.

[fintan]

Thanks for that I'll take a nosey