> Ahh, the magic parenthesis... Check out the Camel on regexen, or the Regex Pocket Manual from ORA. One of Randal's classes has a good intro to this (probably in the Learning Perl book, which makes for a good review). -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY 11421 lembark at wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508