I tried for an hour and a half or so to craft a regex that matches itself, and ONLY itself. I came up with nothing -- well, several dead ends at least. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ Are you a Monk? http://www.perlmonks.com/ http://forums.perlguru.com/ Perl Programmer at RiskMetrics Group, Inc. http://www.riskmetrics.com/ Acacia Fraternity, Rensselaer Chapter. Brother #734 ** I need a publisher for my book "Learning Perl's Regular Expressions" ** ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe