On Aug 21, Janice Pickron said: >What regular expression would you pass to the grep (1) program to >search for all the #define statements in file? Remember that there can >be spaces or tabs both before and after the # sign. This language sounds HIGHLY suspect of homework. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]