Re: probably a simple matter but...

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

>> "M.W. Koskamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 > \s* will match any number of spaces ([0-9.\-]*) will match the
 > largest sequence of any character since there is a dot in the
 > expression.....

 No.  A '.' inside a character class is literal.

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M.