On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:13:17 -0700 (PDT) "Tom Dell'Aringa" <pixelmech at yahoo.com> wrote: > I've never done any regular expressions before - I was wondering if > there was a "simple" way to take a string like a SSN and strip the > "-" out.. s/-//g -- David Dorward http://david.us-lot.org/ HTML email is a bit like using coloured paper and glitter ink on a CV.