On Jan 19, Jonathan E. Paton said: >/^(?=kayak)(?=San Juan Islands)/
No, that cannot possibly match. You mean: /^(?=.*kayak)(?=.*San Juan Islands)/ >/^(?=vegetable)(?!brussel sprout)/ Ditto. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]