On 09/12/02 10:59 -0800, Michael P wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, aj wrote: > > > Does this make better sense? > > Yeah. > > s/ .*$// will do everything you so-rightly want. This might be slightly safer: s/\s\s.*// \s covers tabs as well as spaces. the $ anchor is redundant here. Cheers, Brian