regarding ereg() problem

Hi again;
(Blush)
I just did noticed that I
did not mask out the
two dots:
$x = ereg("<route name='$to' x='\.\./(.*)/in' rec='.*' />", $get_route, $m);
I am trying again......
I still get the same result
jk/in' rec='a_378e6dc4.xml' />
JK
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