John McKown wrote: >I finally got how to parse the string and allow it to start and end with >either a ' or a ". The start and end character must be the same.
>($x)=$line=~m/((:(["'])[^\2]*\2)+)/; Thanks! You have cured my curiousity. ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN