You are absoloodle right about that. Although I'm not sure about their greediness, which might be different. I prefer the '{0,}' in my rewrite rules because I usually define the max-length to prevent code injection. eg. # to make sure only the first 8 chars get passed on to PHP RewriteRule ^blog/([^/]{0,8} index.php?a=$1 [NC,QSA,L] So that's why they ended up in my reply. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php