>Claude makes a good point. My original regex will catch "& i am a tall >man;" > >You could limit the length, as he does, or you could use >\&##?\w+; >Which is an ampersand, an optional hash mark (yes, Claude, you do have >to escape it), one or more "word" bits (letters, numbers), and the >trailing semicolon. > >--Ben "regex from the darkness" Doom > >Claude Schneegans wrote:
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