Larry Wall schreef: > before anyone else points it out to me
<hihi> > I think the long-dot > rule is built into the parser rather than falling out of the > longest-token rule. I think so too, but why then cling to the dot? s:p5/[\][#][^\]*[#][\]// (does not match \#\ ) The backslash is not (or not always) the proper character for this. s:p5/([.^\])[#].*?[#]\1/$1/ thing.# #.xFF(1,2,3) thing.\# #\xFF (0 .. ^# #^42) It's a prophet. :) -- Groet, Ruud