A friendly hello to all of you! As I'm posting first time here, I'd like to introduce myself as a bloody perl-newbie ;( My problem: I tried to use a regexp in a word counting program and encountered that any word with a 'german umlaut' is ignored when using the following m// : $word =~ m/^[a-zA-Z]+([-']+|([-'][a-zA-Z]+))*$/; How do I have to modify the pattern [a-zA-Z] to include aediaresis, oediaresis and uediaresis? TIA & have a nice day ;) -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: g.koss@nextra.atThread Next