> What is the cleanest way to combine these three regular expressions: > > $Note =~ s/^Eft /EFT /; > $Note =~ s/ Eft / EFT /; > $Note =~ s/ Eft$/ EFT/; What are you trying to achieve by combining them? What's wrong with them the way they are? xoa -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance