From: Johnathan Smith Date: 2008-01-14T23:24:30+09:00 Subject: Re: regular expression thank you. what ive basically got now is \w{7}(ed|ing) was basically works for ing but only matches a 9 letter word for ed there must be a better way to do it ive been playing around to with no luck any suggestions would be greatly appreciated thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.