The following crashes my machine (windows XP ) running J j601/2006-11-17/17:05
require 'regex' pat =: '.*:[:alpha:]+:[:alpha:]+:' data =: 'ARR++A:N:8:N:A:US:A:6:19752004:702:0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+0:A+174233:A+179404:A+119607:A+130989:A+151837:A+145934:A+155365:A+182601:A+294121:A+379634:A+399257:A+461510:A+529953:A+621692:A+829887:A+949264:A+994197:A+1129040:A+1468940:A' NB. 251 -: #data (no white space in data) pat rxmatch data Regards David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
