From: Paul Lutus Date: 2006-12-03T10:15:05+09:00 Subject: Re: rexexp question ishamid wrote: / ... > ================== > '{' + '\bf ' + $2 + '}' > ================== > > line? It would be helpful if you could providea complete (short) example of the data to be processed, plus a statement about the relationship between the contents of the data and the desired outcomes. Without necessarily showing what you have tried. IOW show an example of the data, say what outcomes for what data content. What you have posted are examples of your regexps and some of the things that went wrong, but no full examples of data, so it's hard to see why it went wrong. There are quite a few regular posters here who are pretty good with regular expressions. I am sure we can offer some useful hints if we can see the data plus the desired outcomes. -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com