>I, for one, am having trouble understanding what you're trying to >accomplish. I could probably help you if I understood the purpose/goal of >your regular expression. >
Sonny, thanks for the help! I could't make that regex work for my particular problem. Probably because I didn't explain it well enough. It looks like it's matching if there's any spacing before characters on any line. I need to check a chunk of text and make sure it contains SOME kinda characters on the first line. There cannot be any empty spacing on the first line (c.returns,linefeeds, spaces, tabs, etc. The rest of the chunk can contain whatever, I don't care. My regex works, I just don't understand why I have to stick a \S in that 2nd range []. Thanks! Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309249 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
