On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:29:37AM +0530, Manish Sharma wrote: > s/<.+>//; > will not work! > > If I use the above REGEX on the following line: > <TITLE>Test title</TITLE> > it matches the entire line! (Picks up the fist < and the last >) You ran into Perl's greedy matching :). I believe changing .+ with .+? will fix your problem. Regards, Toby -- Tobyn "trb" Baugher <trb at cartoonviolence.net> http://www.cartoonviolence.net AIM:unlewp ICQ:14281524 EFnet:trb