With two caveats... 1)
A leading zero turns a number into a string (not a zero by itself) 2) How to you apply the -! rule that I use all the time which stops a match against -SNAPSHOT e.g. [2,3-!) will not match 3-SNAPSHOT. Perhaps say ! means !"" and which means so that it can only match the following... "" < [a-zA-Z]* < [0-9]* You could also then say !alpha !beta !arbitrary !1 -- Michael McCallum Enterprise Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]