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<br>Rich - another enormous advantage of regexes is simply that they keep code<br>very portable between languages and platform - from Gnu make on WinNT<br>to Python on Mac to UNIX shell etc. Maintainability matters.<br><br>Stephen<br><br>> The win to regular expressions is not speed, but rather that they can <br>> search for and find things that other types of searching can't, or can't <br>> do easily. <br><br> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/' target='_new'>Get it now.</a></body>
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