.htaccess "special characters"

[Wardy]

I can do mod rewrite and do on plenty of sites but having trouble with the .htaccess for a new site.
I'm guessing it's because one of the pages I'm trying to re write has a "-" in the string.
mysite.com/mypage.php?id=word-word

I'm guessing that I have not done it before with a "-" in there although I thought I had.

RewriteRule ^mypage/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?(.*) mypage.php?id=$1

Is it simply the dash that is buggering it up and making it not work and if so can someone whow me how to add the "-" do the rewrite rule (I have had a few goes but I cant' seem to get it to work).

Cheers
Wardy

[dmorison]

Try escaping it with a backslash:

RewriteRule ^mypage/([0-9a-zA-Z\-]+)/?(.*) mypage.php?id=$1

[Wardy]

Excellent mate, that works a treat. I knew it would be something very simple

Cheers
Wardy