From: Mark Thomas Date: 2009-04-07T22:59:10+09:00 Subject: Re: regex select multiple words in the middle of a sentence > With 1.9's Oniguruma (is it available for 1.8?) it's quite easy This shorter one works in 1.8 scan(/EMISOR:\s*([\w\s]+?)(?=\s*[A-Z][a-z])/).flatten I'm curious as to what Oniguruma-specific feature you used in yours. -- Mark.