note Albannach One of my personal rules: Always question a rule that starts with always. <!-- and yes that is intentional! --> <p> While I agree that <code>/x</code> can be mighty handy, I think that your case is so simple as to be made <u>less clear</u> by the change. Perhaps this is because I am used to certain regex idioms, or I just don't like your choice of braces, but I would have thought your first version was better, apart from the explict use of $line which is an improvement. <p> Well the best <!--and worst -->thing about opinions is that you can always get another. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-33341"> <p>--<br> I'd like to be able to assign to an luser </div></div> 484238 484238