> SE/R "y[^ou]r" [Finds "year" but not "your"] Correction -- that should be: The other point about regular expressions is that, once you've got the basic skills down, they transfer across apps and operating systems. It's a lingua franca for find-and-replace. As you get deeper into Linux, you'll see that regexes are definitely your friend. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx