Bill, This is commonly referred to as 'leaning toothpick syndrome' (LTS). The problem is that you're using / as your regex delimiter AND you're not escaping it in your regex. Change your delimiter to something NOT in your regex, like @ or & or whatever, i.e. @:http://.....@ is a valid regex (Perl is smart about this).
-- Dave http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 217 working days of InterGate support left And it came to pass that Bill Jones spoke: > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:37:50 -0500 > From: Bill Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: match URI and nothing more? > > Hmmm, on Abigail's "protocol matcher" I get: > > File "TRJ:Users:sneex:Desktop:HellMatch"; > Line 24: /:http://(/: unmatched () in regexp > > Could it be too complex for BBEdit (651 on OSX) ? > > Nope, I tried the debugger and it says the same thing... > > ??? > -Sx- :] >