Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> Have you tried .+ yet?
> No, why?  That would match one or more consecutive periods.  How is this
> remotely relevant to the problem?

   Because, as you've found out sometimes the documentation is either 
misleading or wrong.

> Speculating how other systems might implement this is pointless.  We're not
> talking about other systems.  We are talking about UltraEdit specifically
> with "Unix style" regular expressions turned off.

   Maybe you should try turning them on.

Tad Anhalt
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