if any guru can tell me a few lines of code to work with, i'd be grateful... I want to parse out fax numbers from ad texts, so I can fax away my resume... it gets tedious after a while and I'd like to automate it... maybe eventualy use applescript/frontier/perl to just go on time 1x a week to www sites, search for key words, download text, parse out fax nos, and fax away... for now I am just looking for that crutch your gonna give what will parse out fax no's a la perl... eg. ad reads: send letter to oweo;fjh f;jldf, or fax:233-645-56434, could be send fax to (232)834-9957, etc... you get the picture... U never *really* know where yer goin till u git thar. "ALVIS" ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch