There's a great O'Reilly book called Mastering Regular Expressions. I'm not sure if this is avilable in ebook format tho. Hope you find it, it's really complete and might be abit more than you really want to know about pattern matching but it's still interesting. :) Johan "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net> writes: > Hi all, > I would like to start by thanking you all for the good advice on reading > word documents. Now, I have another question. Could anyone point me to > some good documentation on using regular expressions? I'm trying to do > some pattern matching. I've tried reading the man page on egrep, and this > is still giving me fits. I've come to the conclusion that I'm not doing > something right. Do any of you know where I may find some help on this? > > -- > Joseph C. Lininger > jbahm at pcdesk.net > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- (talking to the Beastie Boys) Fry: Wow. I love you guys. Back in the 20th century, I had all five of your albums. Ad-Rock: That was a thousand years ago. Now we got seven. Fry: Cool. Can I borrow the new ones. And a couple of blank tapes?