On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 05:31:43PM +0200, allan juul wrote: > i had hoped that something like > > /select.+?(?!order\s+\by)/ > > would have done the trick but this seems naive? You were very close: /select(?!.+order\s+by)/ Ronald ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-anyperl-request@macperl.org