>>>>> "Brett" == Brett W McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Brett> You probably should have the metacharacters quoted so a site name like
Brett> www.domain.com/~user/index.html doesn't screw up your regexp.

There are no metacharacters in that.  Perhaps you are thinking of
() or | or * or ? or + or [] or .

But / and ~ are not metacharacters.

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