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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Deven T. Corzine wrote: > If we want the first interesting match, and we're preferring early matches > and short matches, I believe that "bccccd" is more interesting. then write a regex that describes that pattern. the pattern is one b followed by some stuff that is not a d up to one d you complain because the "." regex special character does not do what you want. it matches any character except a newline. however, for the case you provide, you don't want any character except a newline. so, your use of "." is your problem, along with your refusal to realize that what you are dealing with is a set of rules, and if you grok the rules, you can do what you want. it has nothing to do with opinion or intuition. neither of those have any place in a completely (well, almost ;) described, human-designed system. this isn't nuclear physics after all. your trouble is not with greediness or shortest matches, as i said before. you just don't understand what you are doing and refuse to beleive otherwise. -- brian d foy <brian@smithrenaud.com> Director of Technology, Smith Renaud, Inc. 875 Avenue of the Americas, 2510, New York, NY 10001 V: (212) 239-8985