"This means: Take all the characters *not* in the SEARCHLIST and look for those."
In my case, sometimes the shortest distance between 2 points is a circle. It finally sank in sometime yesterday and in celebration I spent the entire evening and most of the night pouring over perldoc. My problem was the definition of "complement" as Perl understood it. Thanks for your help. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]