On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:24:11 -0400, Michael Barrett <mbarrett at triad.rr.com> wrote: > So my question is: Where does a brother go to learn how to > really understand, use, and write regular expressions well? You can't go far wrong with "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. Suprise surprise... it's an O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/ G. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORK: http://spiked.co.uk/ PLAY: http://polytechnic.co.uk/