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in reply to Regular Expression for MAC Address

    Hi marius,
The thread "One for the regexp fans" from last fall also deals with parsing MAC addresses, albeit from a little different angle.   Might be something there of interest to you (in addition to good answers already provided above).
    cheers,
    Don
    striving toward Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")