> There's also a small book I can recommend: Regular Expressions Pocket > Reference by Tony Stubblebine, published by O'Reilly. It has chapters on > Perl, C, PHP, Python, Java and .NET Why not go the whole way and get 'Mastering Regular Expressions' by Friedel (also from O'Reilly). Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.