From: ts Date: 2004-09-27T18:27:44+09:00 Subject: Re: whitespace string only >>>>> "R" == Robert Klemme writes: R> Err... Those two regexps you present do not yield an equivalent result. R> Or did I miss something? Or did you mean to use /\S/ for the second one? In this case the result is not important : this is just to show that internally it can make something completely different. Guy Decoux