You had: perl -ne'/^\s*#(?!\s*((ifn?|un)def|(el|end)?if|define|include|else)\b)/||print'
I suggest: perl -pe's/^\s*#(?!\s*((ifn?|un)def|(el|end)?if|define|include|else)\b).*//s' Note that without the /s modifier, . will NOT match the trailing \n, so I'd have to add \n to the end of the regex, adding a character to the count. -- 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 **
