Cheers Dave, that is exactly what I am after :)
From: Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 01/06/2010 07:13 PM Subject: Re: Map function with regular expression >> //regular expression to ensure a store name starts with "C" and ends >> with "k" >> var strqry = doc.Stores[id].name.match(/^C([a-z]*)k/); I'm a perl guy so assuming http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html this is accurate then: the regex above (assuming perl & javascript regex are similar) is actually: match on starting with capital C, followed only by 0 or more lower case letters, then k. Your pattern is not terminated at the end of the string, so CookIslands would match. Not sure if that's what you want or not. This might be more your needs - match capital C followed by 0 or more characters and lower k followed by end of string. /^C.*k$/ A+ Dave
