From: ts Date: 2006-07-22T22:05:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Question about a regular expression >>>>> "D" == Diego Amicabile writes: D> /\S+ newline The regexp will select any non-whitespace character followed by a space and the character < '<' was added to extract the FAMILY_NAME, without this character (i.e. with /\S+ /) the regexp will match FIRST_NAME Guy Decoux