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in reply to Regular expressions are:

Both a blessing and a curse --

I'm used to using regex in Perl, or other apps using PCRE, but I have to do work in IDL ... and they have what they claim to be regex support, but it lacks:

So ... anyway, not all regex are created equal -- Perl regex good ... IDL regex is a steaming pile.