From: Dirk Meijer Date: 2005-10-26T02:17:02+09:00 Subject: Re: regular expressions galore ------=_Part_8767_29945285.1130260618952 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline it's still not working for me :-( !~ doesn't work anyway, because it only returns true or false, when i need $& to be set. i think this one is proper: /^:?[\w\/'"$@#]+/ but what would be the opposite of that? ------=_Part_8767_29945285.1130260618952--