note Aristotle How would I go about telling <tt>/z</tt> to wrap it up and accept the end of string as end of match? There are really two things you are asking of the engine: to continue where it left off last time, and to fail without forgetting where it's at when it hits the end of string. You need a way to be able to ask for the first without the latter. Otherwise, as a silly example (but let's pretend it isn't), <tt>/.+/z</tt> would always fail, even at the end of my input stream where I'd want it to successfully match at end of string. <p align="right"><em>Makeshifts last the longest.</em></p> 225083 225110