> I just tried this out and the first regex is actually working for me on php 4.3.8 > (cli). Can you post some code? At this point all I'm trying to do is print the array with the addresses. $file = readfile('mypathto/myfile.html'); $patrn = (\w[-._\w]*\w(?<!webmaster)@\w[-._\w]*\w\.\w{2,3}); $addresses = preg_match($patrn,$file); print_r($addresses); alex hogan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php