On Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002, at 11:53 US/Central, Plunkett, Matt wrote: > Like we had to trim a field of blank characters, and in Perl you have > to regex it, in PHP you simply use the trim method. PHP has *two* regex modules. Both are compiled into PHP by default: - preg_* (Perl Compatible RegEx, which I prefer) http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php - ereg_* (POSIX Extended RegEx) http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php Or do those not count for some reason? Mars :)