An entity claiming to be Ronald J Kimball (rjk@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu) wrote: : : Anyway, here's a degenerate regex that includes + but matches a finite set : of strings: : : /a+^/ : Yeah, forgot {}. Mark -- [] | "Girls in occupied countries always [] Mark Rogaski | get into trouble with soldiers," she [] wendigo@pobox.com | said, when I asked her what the Virgin [] | birth was. -- Florence King, CoaFSL