From b8f6638196cc9ee8e2854718e55652a751c01426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Mullenweg <matt@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 06:29:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Negate that. Fixes #1490. Hat tip: mdawaffe

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@2731 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/functions.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index 0b18a4c5f2..e8391dca4d 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -1982,7 +1982,7 @@ function update_usermeta( $user_id, $meta_key, $meta_value ) {
 	global $wpdb;
 	if ( !is_numeric( $user_id ) )
 		return false;
-	$meta_key = preg_replace('|a-z0-9_|i', '', $meta_key);
+	$meta_key = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9_]|i', '', $meta_key);
 
 	if ( is_array($meta_value) || is_object($meta_value) )
 		$meta_value = serialize($meta_value);